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VOLUME 29, NUMBER 2

September 2000

ARTICLES

C O R P O R AT E O F F I C E R S Board Chair Marcus A. Anderson, ‘61 Board Vice Chair

William WMaywhort, ‘68

PA G E

AOG-Administered Scholarships Awarde

Cadet Beats Serious Disease to Graduate with 200

Two Graduates Running for Political Of c Dallager, ‘69, Takes Reins as 15th Superintenden New Supt Shares Advice with Academy Member

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Major James Cardoso, ‘88, Earns Jabara Award for Heroism

Academy Civil Servant Wraps Up 56-year Caree President Presents Commander-in-Chief sTroph

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New Information Found on ‘66 Graduate’s Final Mission....

AFA Fund Name Changes to AOG Annual Fun

Sabre Society Adds 150 New Members in Six Month

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Graduate Dependent Scholarship Winners Announce Graduate Dependent Scholarship Criteria Oudine

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1st BCT Commander Reports on Goal Achievemen

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James A. Shaw, ‘67 Secretary James W. Brown 111, ‘59

Study Evidence Shows Support for Honor System Class of 2004 Starts Journey at Doolittle Hal 2000 Marks 20th Anniversary of First Women Graduates.... AOG Support Critical for International Program

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Parachute Team Continues Its Winning Way

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Class of 2000 Begins Air Force Career

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‘91 Graduate Earns Scholarship to Study in Franc

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Sabre Society Members Meet at Academ

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President &CEO

John T. Moore, ‘78 S TA F F President &CEO

JamesA. Shaw, ‘67 Vice President, Services JockC.H. Schwank, ‘60 Vice President, Development Gary S. Howe, ‘69

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Vice President, Information Services Charles A. Denham, ‘67 Vice President, Externai Communications

Richard S. Rauschkolb, ‘70 Director of Publications To m K r o b o t h

Director, Constituent Services

Wayne Taylor B O A R D O F D I R E C TO R S Designated Director JamesA. Shaw, ‘67

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AFA Fund Donors Liste

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Attention in the Are

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Graduate Biographical Update For

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ABOUT OUR COVER Our thanks to the Academy Photo Lab and photgrapher Larry Hulst for the cover

To Serve Until 1July 2001

photo of the Commander-in-Chief sTrophy. The 21/2-foot-tall, 170-pound tro¬ phy currently nests where it belongs, in theAir ForceAcademy Field House. En¬ tering the 29th season of trophy competition, Air Force has won 13 titles. Army six. Navy ve, and four years were tied. Air Force has won the title three straight

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years and ve of the last six years. (See related story on page 29.)

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June,SeptemberandDecemberbytheAssociationofGraduates,U.S.AirForceAcad¬ emy. (Phone: 719-472-0300, DSN: 333-2067. FAX: 719-333-4194, E-mail: aog@aogusafa.org.) It is provided as part of amembership package of which the magazine subscription annually accounts for $10. Single copies of CHECKPOINTS for mem¬ bers $2.50. Periodicals postage paid at the U.S. Air Force Academy, CO and addi¬

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Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. They do not neces¬ sarily re ect the opinions, policy or attitude of the Association of Graduates, its

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of cers or the editoriai staff. The appearance of advertisements in this publica¬ tion does not constitute an endorsement by the Association of Graduates of the

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THE AOG BOARDROOM Lt. Gen. (Ret) Marcus A. Anderson, ‘61, Board Chair Dear Fellow Graduates,

Ahearty welcome to the Class of 2004. Ihope you have already seen

you may recall, this fund was established about ayear ago to assist graduates who contract aterminal illness and who need nancial sup¬

that the Association of Graduates is here to help you, your parents, your

port to deal with the often expensive and extensive treatment required.

friends, your sponsors and amyriad of other individuals, groups, clubs and activities you will be associated with during your four years at the Academy. As such, Ihope you will decide early to join our association.

My sincere thanks to Rod and aU the SWA donors.

The bene ts and support will last alifetime.

For those who haven’t visited Doolittle Hall during the past six

months, you will note anew entry and foyer. Our President/CEO Jim Shaw, ’67, and others involved in designing the new layout deserve a

lot of credit for enhancing the appearance and utility of our building. Our next big project is to enlarge the parking lot so we can better ac¬ commodate large functions and the fall-season tailgates. We probably won’t be able to complete this upgrade in CY 2000, but we will have it for the 2001 season.

Let me close with afew words about the future of our association. I m really "upbeat” when Ilook ahead. Why? Because we are reaching the point in membership, nancial strengA, innovation and ability of our staff, strength and reach of our board, and as the anchor, an in¬ volved and supportive membership, that great things are on the hori¬ zon! It will take ateam effort to gain maximum success, but I’m con ¬ a

dent we will have it. Stay tuned -there will be alot more to come. See you this fall -and GO FALCONS! Marcus Anderson, ‘61

Talk about asuccess -our Sabre Society membership has “taken-off’!

We passed the 500 mark earlier this year and Iwouldn’t be surprised to see over 600 members before year-end. And, Tm here to tell you, the funds received are enabling unprecedented support to the Academy (over $600,000 for the Academic Year 2000-2001 Gift Needs List). Sin¬

cere thanks to aU graduates, parents, and friends who have joined this prestigious group of dedicated donors.

Iwould also like to recognize another individual and group of do¬ nors led by Lt. Col. (Ret) Rod Jones, ’71 (a member of our board and a captain for Southwest Airlines). He and the Academy grads ying for SWA donated over $10,000 to our Fund for Terminally-111 Members. As

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to Identify AOG Board Candidates The current bylaws of the Association of Graduates (AOG) con¬

tain provisions for the manner in which candidates for elected di¬ rector positions are identi ed, evaluated and nominated.

Of primary interest in the procedures is the establishment of a standing, vis-a-vis an ad hoc, nominating committee of the board. This committee will have the responsibility for identifying, research¬

ing, interviewing, evaluating and recommending to the board can¬ didates for future board membership.

In essence, the nominating committee will maintain acontinu¬

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VIEW FROM THE HILL Lt. Gen. John R. Dallager, ‘69, Superintendent OK folks...just got back from the ve-mile march to Jack’s Valley with the Class of ’04 and 2nd Beast Cadre as they start the post-Doolie Day

alittle bit of apprehension about kicking their edglings out of the nest!)

wastheoverilsuperiorityofUSAFA’s“wholeperson”leadership/aca¬

Out (better knovm as 2nd half) of Doolie Summer! And yes. Doolies

demic/athletic approach... and the opportunity to prepare to serve our

can still pack away four burgers, chips, two dogs, unlimited sodas/lem¬ onade/potato salad, brownies and ice cream (each!) in less than two hours... then get up at 0500, lug ri es and web gear to Jack’s Valley for some great eld training, while calling "Jodies” and not breakin’ asweat! So fear not “brownshoers”, your academic, sports, and “you can never be too military” records are about to tumble... again! By the time you read this, USAFA will be well into the academic year and the Class of ’04 will of cially be part of the Cadet Wing... ratin’ to join your ranks!

we did!). Another reason is because of the training the rest of the Cadet Wing and USAFA provides!

nation. Maybe that and the great work our Admissions folks here and around the country do, is why we had arecord number of candidates accepting tbeir appointments this year —the highest in 20 years... and as of this writing they’re hangin’ tough and lookin’ better each day! One other prime reason is because of their quality (yes, “hrownshoers”, they’ve got the talent/attitude/desire/stamina to excel... just like you/

Second, as along-time operator, my focus will be two-fold: rst, that everything we do here is relevant to producing second lieutenants who are eager and prepared to join our expeditionary aerospace forces around the globe... regardless ofwhat career eld they enter. Based on my limited observations to date, I’m comfortable that’s what the USAFA team is focused on. Common sense; “real world” leadership opportu¬

nities with decision-making at the cadet “rubber meets the ramp” level; uncompromising honor, military, academic, and athletic standards; and that critically important, but dif cult-to-quantify “character de¬ velopment” atmosphere have struck me as being at the forefront of virtually every activity I’ve seen or participated in so far. Oh sure, there a r e

lots of cadet-related issues still on the plate: cadet pay. Introduc¬

tory Flight Training, character development/community service, just to mention afew... but they’re in work and we’ll update you regularly and solicit your thoughts. Lt. Gen. John R. Dallager, ‘69

As the “new guys and gals” on the block, the Dallager’s think the best

way to begin is with afew “Thanks”. First and foremost, thanks to our Chief and Secretary for the great honor (and responsibility) of joining a blockbuster team here at USAFA. Second, and equally important,

thanks to Tad and Sandy Oelstrom for such awarm welcome, and for their tremendous leadership and enthusiasm while at the helm these

past three years... they’ve left agreat legacy and compass heading for the future. Tad and Sandy... THANKS on behalf of all of us here and

33,000-plus alumni! And while we’re talkin’ about tbe team here... let me tell you it’s primo! The Comm’s, Dean’s, Athletic Department’s and

Additionally in my crosscheck, and directly related in my opinion to pro¬ ducing “full up” second lieutenants/nascent leaders, is the effort Tad

Oelstrom and others have started to seriously examine the way ahead for

USAFA. There have been lots of changes in our world and in our military’s approach to dealing with those changes... our Expeditionary Aerospace Force and Aerospace Expeditionary Forces are prime examples! And so it is with USAFA! Tad Oelstrom gave the Academy agreat start on its Strate¬

gic Planning journey and I rmly believe we —all of us —need to con¬ tinue this journey. The AOG certainly has avery important role in that process. You too have adirect input. Although the “junior” of the Acad¬ emies, like our service, we have truly come of age as an instimtion and it must be avision that takes us well beyond short-range objectives. Just to

10th Ait Base Wing’s folks —military and civilian —make the “Gladia¬ tors” (hope you saw the movie) look like they’re coastin’! But, alas, Idigress! Let me give you aquick update from less than two months “feet on the ground” and some other initial impressions; then Iwant to ask acouple of favors. First, the quality of our programs (lead¬ ership/military, academic, athletic, character development and spiri¬ tual) continues to he top drawer. In the July/August issue of American

whet your appetite: What is an appropriate balance of appropriated/nonappropriated support for our Academy? What about trust funds, endow¬

Enterprise our leadership/management programs were called one of

for the Dean with accreditation and research. How can we better assist in

America’s best because of their topnotch integrated approach to train¬

ing for both the “business of war” and the “war of business”. As if that weren’t enough, the Princeton Review named the Academy the best

college in tbe nation for its overall academic experience. When Ispoke with parents and friends dropping Class ’04 “appointees” off at Doolittle Hall just afew weeks ago (and, yes, that process has changed for the better and is agreat AOG/USAFA effort that watered my eyes!), the over¬ riding message that came through (actually #2 after parents admitting

AOG Board Approves New Format

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AOG Register of Graduates. Starting with the 2000 Register, the book will contain full biographical information on each class at ve-year increments from its graduation year. This year’s edition will con¬ tain full bios on the Classes of 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, and 2000. Members of these classes were encouraged

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ments and other sources of revenues? Who should orchestrate (and how?)

those revenue sources to ensure cooperation, rather than competition? How can the Air Force Academy Athletic Association simultaneously sat¬

isfy DoD, AF, and NCAA requirements, and still remain pro table, while producing competitive teams and intramural/club sports activities? Ditto the Developing Aerospace Leaders initiative? Where should we be headed on Character Development? The list is long, but you get the point...WE NEED YOUR HELP!

So that brings me to the favor request. First, each one of you, as a grad or supporter, is arecruiter... for our Academy and our Air Force. Please take the extra couple of minutes and burn the extra couple hun¬

dred calories to talk with young folks about what the Academy and our Air Force offers. It pays big dividends, witness the record Class ’04 en¬ trants. Second, please let the AOG, USAFA staff, and me have your good Ideas and thoughts on any issue. My e-mail address is John.Dallager@usafa.af.mil. I’d love to hear from you... no guarantees on agreeing, but always sure to listen.

For now, let me close by again saying “thanks” to each of you, our AOG, and the great team here at USAFA, for the privilege of allowing the Dallagers to serve alongside you. As for the brevity (or length, depending on your viewpoint!) of this rst burst, Icould blame It on being a"New Guy”... but actually an old western wisdom best sums it up: "The length of aconver¬ sation don’t tell ya nuttin’ about aperson’s intellect!" While you ponder the esoteric, subliminal implications of that. I’ll simply say, “Let us hear from you” and “Thanks” again! Great to be aboard! JD

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This fellowship is atwo year study program in Paris, France funded by the Association of Graduates and awarded every year to a

Pollitiques (nicknamed Sciences-Po). The American degree is from Middleberry College in French Language, Literature and Civilization. When Aaron is not studying, he will be

working with the Defense Attache Of ce of the American Embassy in Paris. Aaron was selected from agroup of very bright French-speakers in the class of 2000. He majored in History with aminor in French. Aaron is anative of St Louis,

graduating cadet.

Misssouri. Congratulations.

Wolfe Fellowship This fellowship is presented to agraduating cadet to aid in his/her postgraduate

education in pursuit of aMaster of Art degree in the Humanities.

The Colonel Franklin C. Wolfe Fellowship is awarded to Lieutenant Daryl Maas. Daryl will be attending the

University of Texas at Austin for eighteeen months .He will be working on amasters in History with an emphasis in Latin America. As acadet, Daryl participated in exchanges and educational programs in Spain, Czechoslovakia, and Colombia. He also was an Upgrade Soaring Instructor Pilot for ve semesters. He majored in American and Military History with aminor in Spanish. Daryl was active in the History Honor Society, Cadet Chorale, and Scuba Club. He is anative of Mount Vernon, Washington.

Congratulations.

The Earle A. and Marion Nutter Scholarship is awarded

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to Lieutenant Robert Volesky. Robert will be attending Iowa State University working on amasters in Electrical

Engineering .While acadet, Robert participated in aone semester exchange with the US Naval Academy, served as the Director of Operations on the fall wing staff in 1998,

and participated in asummer research program at the

This scholarship is presented to a

graduating cadet to aid in his/her postgraduate education who entered the Academy after serving aminimum of nine months active duty as an enlisted member.

Central Intelligence Agency. He was amember of the Cadet Chorale, Naval Academy Men’s Glee club, and Bluebards. Robert majored in Electrical Engineering with aminor in Math. He is anative of Newhall, Iowa. Con¬

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LETTERS TO THE AOG More Information Offered on 39th Squadron Patch Checkpoints editors. This is in response to Melissa Schneider’s ar¬ ticle in the December 1999 Checkpoints maga¬

zine (page 17) on the four squadrons that dis¬ banded last year. Ihave additional and more ac¬ curate info on the history of the Campus Rads. Contrary to your sources, the class of 1992 did not bring back the 39* Squadron Jedi Knight patch. It was members from the early 1980s classes that were the ones who switched the

squadron name and patch to Jedi Knights from Campus Rads. Lt. Col. Hasty, our squadron training of cer at the time and the current

there. 1asked Fran if she would trade me the

Campus Rads patch for the Jedi Knights patch. She agreed and used the spatula to pry it loose. 1cut the other one off my A-Jacket and we swapped patches. Ishowed my roommate at the time, Danny Hernandez, the Campus Rads patch that 1got.

We were all pretty excited, because no one had seen one before except in apicture. We took it downtovm and got aC-Springs patch shop to churn out like 200 or so. We gave them to ev¬

eryone in the squadron and we all sewed them on our A-Jackets. Our

rst test was at noon meal

Misawa JAG, was the CS-39 cadet squadron

formation where we all wore the new patch. The

commander when it happened. Iremember him telling us during M-5 that they actually got George Lucas’ permission for the name change. Those early ‘80s dudes were seriously geeky.

commandant. General Redden, went nuts. We heard that he called our AOC, Maj. Jim

Pennekamp, onto the carpet and chewed him

Rads patch through the uniform store. The 1992 yearbook shows the Rads patch on page 476, even though it says Jedi Knights at the bottom of the page.

Istill have my A-jackets, one with the original

patch, and the other with the one we got made. Ieven got “RADS —POTENTIA VINCERE” in¬ scribed inside my class ring, which has aterrazzo stone in it. It is too damn bad they got rid of akick-butt squadron. Sincerely, Jay Green CAMPUS RAD GRAD (‘92)

Checkpoints Editors, This is in response to Melissa Schneider’s ar¬ ticle on the deactivation of CS 37-40. Iunder¬

came Redden’s exec. After their meeting. Ma¬

stand another proud member of CS 39 has al¬ ready responded to you with correct informa¬ tion. Following is some more history about our

Hernandez, were the ones who brought Cam¬

jor Pennekamp told us there will “BE NO WEAR¬

patch change.

pus Rads back in 1991. Here is the real story. Ever since 1joined CS-

I N G O F T H E R A D S PAT C H . ” M o s t o f u s c o n ¬

Members from the classes of 1991 and 1992,

with ringleaders Jay Green and Danny

out for our stunt; he must have said something

to impress the general, because he soon be¬

tinued to wear it anyway.

As Jay Green mentioned, he and Iwere the ringleaders in bringing back Cool Campus Rads

We also appealed to the uniform board to al¬ low us to return to the old-style patch. Our AOC fought for us and we nally were sanctioned to wear the Rads patch. After Igraduated in 1992, Iunderstand that they nally started Issuing the

in 1991 with the original patch, but Ipicked up

from Fran’s cafeteria in Fairchild Hall, behind

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he asked me to tite over. So, Idid with aven¬ geance. The rest is as Jay Green explained.

39 (in 1989), we called the squadron “Campus

Rads” even though the of cial name was Jedi Knights. We thought Jedi Knights was lame. Our smacks always greeted “Good afternoon sir/ ma’am, Cooooooooool Campus Rads!” One day in 1991,1 was getting some coffee and food

the reigns for the patch conversion from Bill Tracy, '90, and his classmates. When Iwas a

sophomore in 39, Bill was spearheading the patch change in the spring semester with no luck. As his next year would be his senior year,

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By Senior Airman Marijon Clarke Academy Spirit staff Four years at the Academy is hard for most cadets to endure. To factor in aserious illness, and still succeed is avery rare accomplishment. Ca¬ det 1st Class Stephen Ramsey knows rst-hand how trying that can be. After asemester of being on wing staff as atving training NCO, and taking 33 credit hours in his thirdclass year, Ramsey went home for Christmas break only to experience what would begin his journey bat¬ tling Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC). His sister had mentioned on New Year’s Eve that his eyes looked jaundiced. He felt ne though and gured he may be coming down with the u, or mono at the worst, and it would take care of itself. ‘Initially 1thought maybe my condition was brought on by the high stresses, but later doctors con rmed that stress did not affect my condition,” Ramsey, an astronautical engineer and mathematics (double) major, said.

medical history, but he took his experiences as acadet with him. ‘Be¬ sides the book knowledge I’ve gotten here. I’ve also learned about lead¬

ership, and how to be agood leader,” said Ramsey, ‘Tve also learned about communication, and how important it is.” Ramsey was to start working at NASA in mid-summer, where he will pursue acareer in astronautical-engineering. (The Academy Spirit)

Center for Character Development Hosts Numerous Activities By Col. Tom Berry, ‘71 Deputy Director of the Center for Character Development

The Academy’s Center for Character Development builds on the char¬ acter-enriching environment of the Academy and the experiences of its graduates. Each year the center sponsors workshops, classes and seminars with the goal of aiding cadets, faculty, and staff in becoming better of cers and citizens. This past year, thanks to the support of the Association of Graduates, the center was able to host several charac¬ ter-building events.

Each year the center invites distinguished veterans to visit the Acad¬ emy and share their experiences with cadets at avariety of venues. One such venue is the Falcon Heritage Forum. Here, small groups of cadets are invited to spend two days vnth these honored guests in arelaxed setting. The casual atmosphere of the Forum enables cadets to pose

questions they wouldn’t ask in an Arnold Hall lecture. During Falcon Heritage Forum apersonal bond is created between cadet and veteran, leaving each cadet with astronger image of what it means to be adedi¬ cated of cer. This program is afavorite with the wing, with numerous repeat cadet volunteers.

The largest activity hosted by the center is the annual National Charac¬ CIC Stephen Ramsey thanks Brig.Gen. Mark Welsh, commandant of cadets, for his support during his battle to graduate. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Roel Utley)

Ramsey returned to the Academy toward the end of Jan. 1999 and went to the cadet clinic where Maj. Terence McManus ran the initial tests. After aliver biopsy and other tests, Ramsey was diagnosed with

ter and Leadership Symposium. This premier event gives our cadets, vis¬

iting undergraduate students. Academy staff and faculty achance to in¬ teract with distinguished speakers on various aspects of character enrich¬ ment. For the 2000 symposium, Medal of Honor recipient Vice Admiral James Stockdale, 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps General Charles Krulak, former Dodgers manager Tommy LaSorda, and astronaut

PSC in March of 1999. He was told he would need aliver transplant within ve to 10 years.

Dr. Story Musgrave talked to the cadets about ‘‘Service Before Self.”

Life for him remained the same. He was still doing full workouts, and didn’t even experience most of the “normal” symptoms of the illness, itching and abdominal pains. He had only noticed that his jaundice

signed by the center to enhance emerging and mature military leader¬ ship. This program fosters are ective environment where participants are encouraged to recognize their role in character development of oth-

was getting worse over time. He took part in summer programs such

ers.

as research with NASA and cadet survival training. He was evasion ight commander and rst basic cadet squadron commander. “I noticed adecrease in my energy levels during the summer, but I still felt ne,” he said. By fall of 1999, he could no longer work out the way he was used to, only able to run, as his jaundice continued to worsen. In November last year, Ramsey was placed on the liver-trans¬ plant list. Over Christmas break the jaundice peaked, and his skin be¬

gan to turn bright yellow. By early February this year he was admitted to the University of Colorado’s Health Science’s Center (UCHSC). Over the following weeks, Ramsey experienced lung complications that required hospitalization and surgery. “During the procedure, pain medication was insuf cient and it was very painful. It was actually a worse operation than the liver transplant,” he said. After that he went home for spring break, in hopes that he’d faced the worst. However, on the way back he noticed some stomach pains. He was readmitted back to the UCHSC hospital where he was eventually moved to the top of the liver transplant list.

“I waited there for nine days with my family keeping me company,” Ramsey said. “My condition was stable. But each day and night Ididn’t know if things would get worse and Iwould die or if that magic call would come in with aliver that could save me.”

He wasn’t alone though. His parents were there and did whatever they could. And the list of prayers continued to grow. Many friends had offered to be donors, including family members, friends and even his superiors. On April 18, Ramsey nally got the call—and in only afew hours the trans¬ plant was conducted. Although there were some complications later on, none were too severe to keep him from surviving the illness.

Ramsey graduated from the Academy on May 31, after more than a

ACES, short for Academy Character Enrichment Seminars, was de¬

All

rst-class cadets participate in this one-time opportunity to

consider what type of leader they aspire to be. Our faculty, staff and coaches also participate in ACES, enriching their individual mentoring and leadership skills.

At the end of the academic year outstanding cadets in two character

development areas are acknowledged at AOG-sponsored recognition dinners. This spring the superintendent thanked 77 cadet Human Re¬ lations Education Of cers for their sustained exemplary performance

in building respect and understanding within the cadet wing. Mr. Harlin Lobe, guest speaker from the Anti-Defamation League, presented his thoughts that night on tolerance to these future Air Force leaders. In May, 100 cadet Honor Of cers and NCOs were highlighted for their outstanding contributions. Dr. Jerry Davis, president of the College of the Ozarks, shared his personal experiences in his own character de¬ velopment. Both ceremonies drew praise from cadets and staff alike. This faU USAFA will be the rst service academy to host the national Academic Integrity Conference, sponsored by Duke University. Par¬

ticipants will discuss concepts of academic integrity, steps taken to encourage acceptance of these critical values, and different policies on enforcement and research.

The Center for Character Development would not be able to supply

these character-enriching programs to our cadets, faculty, and staff with¬ out the generous help of the Association of Graduates. AOG support enables the center to continue its nationally recognized character-build¬

ing curriculum. National Character and Leadership Symposium 2001, two Falcon Heritage Forums, and twice as many ACES are planned for this upcoming year; Invited speakers include President George Bush and General Colin Powell. Most importantly, the cadet vnng is enthusiastic about these ourishing character development programs.

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mittee rooms.”

Martinez feels that the country’s attention is focused on the strong national economy and that few political leaders are addressing impor¬ tant public policy issues around defense, education, and public ser¬ vice. “When Igraduated from high school in 1989, it was the highest honor to attend the Academy, and like many of my classmates, we turned dovra offers of admission to the best Ivy League schools in the country to serve,” he said. “Today, many young Americans are spurn¬ ing the service academies to pursue successes elsewhere.” Martinez added, “One reason Idecided to run for this seat is because

nationally the Secretaries of State are responsible for elections and getting citizens actively involved in government and the political process. Iwant to make adifference as aleader who tells people it’s great to become in¬ volved in public service —whether in the military or in the community^’ The candidate worked as aUSAFA/AFROTC recruiting of cer while instructing AFROTC at Detachment 560 in Manhattan College, New York. He served previously as amaintenance of cer for the 354'*' Fighter

AOG President Relates “Doolie

Day Ouf Experience By Jim Shaw, ‘67 AOG President &CEO

Sunday, July 16th, was “Doolie Day Out”, asix-hour escape from the rigors of training for our basic cadets who were halfway through sum¬ mer training. Volunteer families pick them up at the eld house and host them for the day. The program gives the basics achance to un¬

wind, “veg out”, call friends and family, and eat some junk food that Mitchell Hall just doesn’t provide. Imust admit Iawoke that Sunday morning tired and unenthusiastic

about the day. Thinking to myself “why do Ido this every year”, Idrove out to the “Zoo”, waited in line and handed my card with the names of

the basics Iwas to host to apoised cadre member. “Mulally and Sterker, front and center” and two smiling faces showed up at my car. The lack of enthusiasm immediately left me as Irealized why my fam¬ ily insists on hosting basics each summer. We bring wonderful young people to the academy -intelligent, enthusiastic, motivated and pleas¬ ant to be around. It was the rst year I’d had only females and they were great! Mary was from New York State and had turned down an

offer to attend Harvard to come to USAFA. Since fourth grade, she has

Squadron and the 62"'* Airlift Wing at McChord Air Force Base in Wash¬ ington State. Martinez earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the Academy in economics and amaster of aeronautical science degree through Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He is currendy acap¬ tain in the Air Force Reserves and works as apublic policy executive with QWEST Communications International (formally USWEST, Inc.).

Mitchel, ‘70, Running for Ohio Congressional District (Beavercreek, Ohio, May 11th, 2000) In aletter dated May 1st, the Clark County Board of Elections noti ed Air Force veteran John Mitchel, ’70, that he would appear on the Nov. 7th ballot as an independent candidate for the U.S. Congress, District 7. The Seventh District in¬ cludes Union, Champaign, Clark, Greene, Fayette, Pickaway, and Fair eld counties, with parts of Logan and Ross. Dave Hobson is the ve-term incumbent in tbe district.

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Mitchel collected over 110,000 votes in 1998

when he ran for governor on the Reform Party ticket. That would also be the approximate number be would need to win the 7th District seat.

Mitchel commented, “That’s certainly doable —if we focus our efforts in nine counties versus 88, Isee no reason why we can’t garner well over 100,000 votes.

“I’m convinced we can win, but it will take amonumental grass roots effort. I’m pleased to say we are gaining volunteers every day, and that momentum will surely grow as we get closer to the election.”

Questions regarding John Mitchel’s candidacy can be addressed on his web site, www.reformcongress.com. dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Morgan, from Tampa, had afull ride to Florida but wanted tbe challenge of the Academy. She plans to b e a d o c t o r.

The ladies made their telephone calls, ate, relaxed and visited with us until the time to return approached. The day went quickly and Ihope they enjoyed themselves as much as we enjoyed having them. It will be fun watching them grow and develop over the next four years as they experience all those special milestones that are so meaningful to graduates.

As I“saw USAFA in my rearview mirror”, Ifelt very comfortable in the fact that we continue to attract America’s best young people, provide them with an outstanding education and give them the leadership ex¬ perience which will serve them and the nation so well in the future.

Ialso felt very fortunate to occupy the position I’m in. Not only do I work regularly with wonderful young people and adedicated Acad¬ emy/AOG staff, but Ialso enjoy daily contact with an exceptional group of graduates, friends of our Academy and parents. It’s your willingness to donate, to participate and to recruit that helps keep the Air Force Academy great. Thank you for all you do to make our Academy apre¬ mier national educational and leadership program. Training future leaders for America is what it’s all about, and thanks to your support we’re doing it better than ever!

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Falcon Foundation Continues Support of AOG Lt. Gen. (Ret) Ben Beilis (center), president of The Falcon Founda¬ tion, presents AOG Board Chairman Lt. Gen. (Ret) Marcus Anderson, ’61, with a$25,000 check to help defray expenses associated with are¬ cent building modi cation in Doolittle Hall. AOG President and CEO Jim Shaw, ’67, looks on.

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1993 Grad to Appear on Colorado November Ballot The mission of the Air Force Academy is to produce leaders for America, and another member of our “long blue line” will be seeking an elected leadership post this fall. Anthony Martinez, agraduate of the Air Force Academy’s Class of 1993, has been nominated to Colorado’s Nov. y* ballot for aspecial vacancy election in the of ce of Colorado Secretary of State. “This is agreat opportunity for veterans in Colorado to add one of their ovm to the state’s political leadership. Ithink it’s important that we have more military veterans in public of ce nationwide,” he said. Tt is troubling when national security matters are dealt with by many who’ve never served. The personnel and readiness issues impacting our defense forces today are rarely discussed outside of legislative com¬

Youngest Sabre Society Member with the Chief

Air Force Chief of Staff General Mike Ryan ’65, (center), poses with Sa¬ bre Society Members Danny Showers (left) and 2000 graduate 2nd Lt. Derek Showers. Derek became the youngest member of the Sabre Society at the Sabre Society Recognition Weekend in July.

Waldo gazed around for awaiter. He saw the white coat delivering more peanut butter to the next table.

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The Table Commandant glared at the doolies. At the end of the table, eyes locked on the emblem on

“ M r. S m i t h . . . ”

his plate, C/4C Waldo F. Dumbsquat could feel the angry eyes boring into his shaved head.

“ M r. S m i t h . . . ”

“Dumbsquat!”

‘Yes, sir!” The freshman looked up sharply to lock eyes with the rstie. ,0

“ W h a t ’s f o r d e s s e r t ? ” t h e s e n i o r d e m a n d e d .

“Sir, the cadets at the table are having Mitch’s

“No more water in Mitchell Hall,” replied the waiter. “No more seconds,” came the standard reply. “Mr. Smith, where is our dessert?’ “Dessert’s on the table, dumb smack.”

“Mr. Smith, that’s actually Dumbsquat." The doolie looked back at the Table Commandant. “Sir, may 1make astatement?” “Go ahead.”

“Sir, the waiter informs me that the dessert is on the table.” By now the vanilla scoop was melting. The rstie ordered Waldo to

Mountain for dessert!” ‘Well, where is it?”

“Sir, the dessert is on the table.” Waldo gestured

nd the real Mitch’s Mountain. The doolie braced and gazed his

to the scoop of vanilla ice cream plopped on atea

way up and down the squadron tables until ared coat pointed him

c u p s a u c e r.

to agold coat.

“There’s no gesturing at the Air Force Academy, Dumbsquat!” shouted the rstie incredulously.

“No, sir!”

‘We took a90 percent cut in the dessert budget,” explained the head waiter. “From now on, every meal will include pecan pie.” Faced with culinary disaster, the freshman ducked under aclosed table and uttered the magic politically incorrect words “smoking lamp”. Instantly, he transformed into Colonel Waldo F. Dumbsquat, aman who never had to oat. Storming the Staff Tower, the of cer

‘Well, you’re the Loadmaster, Dumbsquat, ask the waiter where our

grabbed atelephone. He called the only organization that always

‘Yes, sir!”

“That anemic frozen glob of ice is not Mitch’s Mountain! Does it even look like amountain to you, Dumbsquat?”

dessert is.”

had too much money.

‘Yes, sir!'

Today’s Cadets Have It Made! By Lt. Col. (Ret) Steven A. Simon, ‘77

Things were sure alot tougher back when Iwas acadet. Yeah, yeah, I know. Cadets have been saying that without pause since July 1956. Re¬ markably, every class says all the good deals ended just before they got to the Academy (starting up again as soon as they left) and the training

“Hello, Diggers and Fillers. Now here this. Transfer funds to the Cadet Dessert Account ASAP. Dumbsquat out.” His work done, Waldo morphed back into his puny freshman frame. Shuf ing back to his table, he reported to the senior cadet.

“Sir, the gold coat Informs me that the true Mitch’s Mountain will be served at this evening’s meal.” “Good work, Dumbsquat. Now take your seat. Your classmates saved you some ice cream.”

Sitting down, the doolie looked at the vanilla puddle on his plate. Waldo sighed.

got soooo much easier after their doolie year. But truly today’s cadets, even doolies, have it depressingly easy in one of the most important as¬ pects of Academy life -the ability to go dovmtown and mingle with the civilian populace without instantly being identi ed as acadet. We sure couldn’t do that, and it wasn't just because of the black low quarters we wore with the wrinkled contraband civilian clothes, or the fact we called

people our age “Ma'am” and “Sir.” No, the reason was hair length.

Admi ssi o n s Web Si te

Provides Useful Information By Jennifer Brugman

Of course, hairstyles, like skirt lengths, are always changing. Today’s male cadets just happen to be hitting it at the right time in the cycle (and

Academy Spirit staff There is more information in the Academy’s Admission pages than

Iguess the very early classes did, too). Look around at the local shop¬ ping mall or high school. Short hair is the thing. Who would have thought

you could shake acomputer at (not that you’d ever want to). Head to www.usafa.af.mil and go to the Admissions puU-down menu for every¬ thing you’d ever want to know about Admissions, cadet life, and the

Air Force Cadet Wmg Regulation 35-10 (or today’s renumbered equiva¬ lent, Ithink 537-something) would turn out to be the fashion trendsetter, the primer on coolness? It’s really not fair. Members of the current Ca¬

det Wing (spoiled as they are by good deals and wimpy training) prob¬ ably take this for granted, not even realizing how good they’ve got it. Back in the ‘70s, when Iwas there, things were tough. We were easy marks for the townies who resented us for reducing the girlfriend pool, and there was no place to hide. For cadets of my day, pushing the hair

regs was one of the few ways to express individuality and maintain selfrespect (one of the few ways that wouldn’t result in disenrollment if caught, anyway).

The only lucl^ cadets in this regard were the African-Americans and boy, did we envy them. By using anylon stocking to “pack” their hair, they could attend class and stand at formation with almost no bulk. Afterward, though, afew minutes with apick-type comb and they had billowing mountains of hair in the then-popular Afro style, just like the guys in Colorado Springs and Denver. They were incognito, totally unrecognizable as cadets. Packing didn’t work for the rest of us, though

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interested in cadet life can read biographies on upper-level command personnel or learn more about the Academy’s library system. These pages also tell students Interested in coming to the Academy how to begin the admissions process and what will be expected of them.

Picture pages have large and interesting photos but don’t take too long to load. Information pages contain data about everything from international cadet admission procedures to Basic Cadet Training.

‘We’ve got the online application and that’s been successful,” said Capt. Steve Bremner, associate director of Admissions for information systems. “It provides the means for the liaison of cers to go online and nd out the status of the applications.”

Between ve and 10 applications are received each week from the

some tried it. Grease worked to apoint, but not enough to fool any¬ one. One of my doolie squadronmates, Swen Luter (who quit before

web site. Because of this, Bremner thinks the web page is avery suc¬

the year was over), had awool cap with blond hair protruding from

ture,” Bremner said.

underneath. He used it on the ski slopes vnth, he said, signi cant suc¬ cess, but the appiications of that solution were limited. So we suffered. I’m retired now. Abit of gray (OK, alot of gray) has seeped into what’s ieft of my mane. The chances of being mistaken for acadet are de¬ cades gone, but Imake sure to keep my hair alittle long. Just In case.

cessful marketing tool for admissions into the Academy. “It’s the fu¬ Effective planning can avoid those taxes.

To learn if you can bene t, call Gary Howe, ‘69, at the AOG. (719) 472-0300 or Gary.Howe@usafa.af.mil

1 5

The Secret Life of Waldo EDumbsquat

By Jennifer Brugman Academy Spirit staff

Michael Ryan, Air Force chief of staff. Oelstrom passed Ryan the Acad¬ emy ag and then Ryan offered it to Dallager to symbolize the chang¬

It was ashout heard around the Academy. The new superintendent, Lt. Gen. John Dallager, began his change of command speech June 9 with aseries of thank yous. Then he shouted out his happiness at being back at the Academy. Everyone from former superintendent Lt. Gen. Tad Oelstrom and his

family, community leaders, enlisted personnel and cadets were thanked for appearing at the event. Then Dallager expressed his happiness at returning to Colorado Springs by quoting Oscar Wilde (“Life is too im¬ portant to be taken seriously.”) and letting out a“Yee haw!” that would make the most seasoned cowboy proud. Dallager’s speech concluded the ceremony presided over by Gen.

Best Wishes, Final Thoughts; Oelstrom Thanks Supporters By Lt. Gen. Tad Oelstrom, ‘65

Academy superintendent

Rangin’ 10! 1would like to share some nal thoughts with you as Ire ect on my tenure as Superintendent. What aspectacular opportu¬ nity Ihave had over the past few years to serve as your Superin¬ tendent. The enduring memories Itake with me will be of the great people who work at the Air Force Academy.

ing of command.

“Let me say vdth alitde bit of humility and 100 percent accuracy [how honored we are to be] at aplace far, far above Annapolis and West Point,” Dallager said. Dallager, a1969 graduate, went on to reminisce about his days at the Academy back in the ‘60s. “As Istand here today, Ican’t help but recall 35 years ago being ayoung St. Petersburg [Fla.] high school graduate entering the Academy, and I’m sure everyone says this, but there are some things that quickly come to mind,” Dallager said, “The smell of cut grass at 5:30 in the morning as we were rudely awakened for Doolie activities, the agony of the obstacle course, aclassmate of mine falling asleep and falling out of his chair in geography class after lunch... he may even be athree-star general today. But more seriously, the cohesiveness of cadets and Academy graduates.” Fie then recalled how Academy graduates continually impressed him over the last 30 years of his career. “The Dallager family is more con¬ vinced than ever of the importance of not only this Academy but the Air Force to our nation,” Dallager said.

The new superintendent graduated from the Academy with abach¬ elor of science degree in mechanical engineering. Dallager becomes superintendent after serving as assistant chief of staff for operations and logistics, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. He was re¬ sponsible for the operation and logistical readiness of Allied Command Europe Forces. (The Academy Spirit)

Admissions Picture Rosy for Entering Class of 2004 By Rollie Stoneman Director of Selections

The admissions picture for the Class of 2004 is rosy. To help offset the Air Force requirement for pilots, we maintained our focus on pilotquali ed young men and women to help us achieve our target of 60 percent pilot-quali ed appointees. For the foreseeable future, virtu¬ ally every cadet who is medically pilot-quali ed and wants to y will have that opportunity. In raw numbers, that means more than 500 graduates of each class will be able to ll Air Force cockpits. Women

will make up about 15 percent of the Class of 2004 and approximately 18 percent will be minorities.

This year’s entering class is exceeding last year’s numbers virtually across the board. Initial class size was projected to be approximately 1,250. However, ahigher than normal acceptance rate will result In an actual class closer to 1,350. Although USAFA offered fewer appoint¬ ments than last year, the number declining those offers is on track to be the lowest in 20 years. The Academy normally sees 25-26 percent of Lt. Gen. Tad Oelstrom, former Academy superintendent, crowd

surfs cadets during afootball game. (Courtesy photo)

those tendered an appointment turn it down. Fewer than 20 percent are saying, “No thanks” this year.

The people who work at the Academy are integral to the success

of the Academy and its graduates. What an awesome group of of¬ cers, enlisted and civilians we have serving here at USAFA! From Air Of cers Commanding and Military Training Leaders to instruc¬

tors, from coaches to support staff-their dedication and profes¬ sionalism are the reasons we commission such great leaders of tomorrow’s Air Force.

Ihave adeep appreciation of your sacri ces and sense of duty, and thank you for playing such apivotal role In the development of our future of cers. Your impact can be seen across USAFA not

only in your day-to-day work, but also in the mentoring that you provide cadets.

We have absolutely incredible young people who come through our doors —talented, intelligent, athletic, dedicated and ambi¬ tious. They juggle academics, athletics, leadership duties, airman¬

ship, and make it aU look so easy, so fun. Virtually every day I’m reminded how truly special our cadets are —and how lucky we are to be involved in their training. Your support to me during my tenure has been unsurpassed. Thank you and Godspeed to all of you!

Dallager, ‘69, Takes Reins as 15th Superintendent

Family and friends gather at Doolittle Hall on inprocessing day to bid farewell to their appointees. (Photo by Bob McAllister) Contrary to recent newspaper and magazine articles describing adec¬

lination in applicants for service academies, the Air Force Academy ap¬ plicant pool is solid. In fact, 6,000 more students requested applica¬ tions this year. As aresult, our pool of applicants for the Class of 2004 (Continued on next page.)

New Supt Shares Advice with Academy Members Lt. Gen. John Dallager, Academy superintendent, follows the personal credo of “Excellence, Balance and Integrity.” He has an extensive Air Force career to share with Academy staff, cadets and families. Dallager earned adegree in mechanical engineering as adistinguished gradu¬ ate from the class of 1969. He went on to pilot training and is acom¬

mand pilot with more than 2,900 hours in F-4, A-10 and F-15 aircraft; and more than 600 combat hours over Southeast and Southwest Asia

and Bosnia. “I developed [a credo] about 15 to 20 years ago when Iwas

going to be a ight commander. It sort of parallels the core values that the Air Force has had for several years now,” Dallager said. Excellence means if you’re going to do something, then do it worldclass, he said. The general approaches many subjects with enthusiasm. For example, Dallager began his swearing-in speech with aloud ‘Yeehaw!” He believes agood attitude can overcome most obstacles. However, DaUager advises, enthusiasm needs to be tempered with com¬ mon sense and good judgement. Balance is also an important element to live by. “1 joined the Air Force,

Imarried my vnfe and there’s adifference,” Dallager said. Dallager knows an Air Force career can be very stressful on personal commit¬ ments. “As acommander you have two families, your personal family, which is for alifetime, and then the family of whatever organization

you’re commanding, and you have to try to balance between all those. It’s very dif cult, very challenging —you’re walking atightrope.” Dallager believes families are important. “Sometimes you get to the top of the ladder and you nd it’s leaning against the wrong wall,” he said. “Getting side-tracked is too easy. Setting priorities is the key to success.” The nal part of Dallager’s credo is integrity. “Integrity is the bedrock of everything we do —^what the military is all about,” he said. Integrity is essential because Air Force members have to trust each other with their lives.

Dallager recognizes the Air Force has changed over the years. His big¬ gest concern is ensuring everything the Academy does prepares every¬ Lt. Gen. John Dallager, Academy superintendent, welcomes anew member of the class of2004 at Doolittle Hall during Inprocessing Day

one here —cadets, staff members, civilians, families —for what the Air Force is doing throughout the world. "We’re expeditionary, we go on short notice to often strange and exotic places. We need to take care

June 29. (Photo by Stan Hampton)

of folks -be sure that everything we do here is preparing people for that,” Dallager said.

(Class of 2004: From previous page.)

is more than 700 larger than last year. Moreover, the Academy has had no problem getting the quali ed candidates needed to ll each class. More speci cally, the “quali ed candidate” pool has been stable with only atwo- percent uctuation over the last eight classes. The implementation of our Pre-Junior program in the fall of 1995 has

provided increasing numbers of students to the Air Force Academy. Through Pre-Junior, we both seek out and respond to inquiries from

Dallager spoke vdth many parents during inprocessing June 29. “They are giving up the hest thing they got —their sons and daughters.” He has

some advice for the new basic cadets. “Nobody ever said it was going to

be easy. There’s areason for that. You’re joining the greatest aerospace force in the history of the globe.” Dallager hopes Academy staff mem¬ bers, cadets and families will work together in keeping it that way.

Superintendent Joins Sabre Society

students who are not yet age-eligible to apply for admission, adding them to our database of prospects. Then, each year in February, the Academy automatically sends an application to those who have reached the second semester of their junior year in high school. For

mand from Tad Oelstrom, ‘65, he followed Tad’s lead by joining

the Classes of 2004 and 2005, this meant an initial mail-out of more

perintendent (along with Brad Hosmer, ‘59, and Zita) to become

than 20,000 applications. About 33 percent of the Class of 2004 were initially in the Pre-Junior Program. In addition, in 1999 we added an on-line application option. We are currently receiving nearly 100 ap¬ plications aweek via this method. In recognition of aconstantly changing marketplace, we continue to

aSabre Society member and the rst to do so while serving in

seek ways to spread the Academy message and increase our pool of quali ed candidates. The future also looks bright. For future classes the Academy expects an increase in applicants simply because the high school graduate pool is increasing. College admissions, however, is like any commercial enterprise -if you’re not moving forward, you’re

Lt. Gen. JD Dallager, ‘69, not only assumed the reins of com¬ the Sabre Society. Last year, Tad became the second graduate su¬

that position. JD and Jane were quick to follow the lead of Tad and Sandy and became members just two months after arriving at their new assignment. Many, many thanks to Brad, Tad and JD for their outstanding service and support for the Sabre Society and the Academy.

falling behind.

AOG Honors the Oelstroms

The Class of2004 will continue the Long Blue Line. (Photo by Bob

The Association of Graduates thanked Lt. Gen. Tad Oelstrom and his wife, Sandy, at aMay dinner for their superb support during his tenure as Superintendent.

McAllister)

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Gerald f. Garvey, ‘59

Karl F. Kellerman, III

Anewspaper obituary is always too stark. Gerry’s began: “Princeton, N.J. —Gerald Garvey, professor of politics at Princeton University, died on April 9at tbe Medical Center at Princeton, as are¬

sult of complications of cancer. He was apolitical scientist with inter¬ ests in American politics, public policy, public administration and po¬ litical theory.” That’s accurate enough, but even with all the subsequent detail it couldn’t begin to capture the soaring intelligence, puckish humor, aca¬ demic brilliance or warm humanity that animated our classmate. Gerry was born in 1935 in Chicago and attended the University of Notre Dame for two years before joining us for opening day on luly 11, 1955. As the Academy was molding the traditions and standards in those initial critical years, Gerry emerged as an intellectual, spiritual and ethi¬ cal leader of the rst four classes. He was afounding member, philo¬ sophical leader, and chairman of the Cadet Honor Committee, laying the foundation for one of the nation’s premier honor instruction and training programs. According to General McDermott, our former Dean of Faculty, Gerry became aconsultant and advisor for him in establish¬ ing the Academy’s academic enrichment program. This academic in¬ novation led the way to the eventual modernization of the curriculum

recognized and he was appointed the director of Planning and Special Projects for the U. S. Federal Power Commission. From this vantage point, Gerry became one of the very rst to recognize, inspire creative thinking about, and write on the coming world energy crisis. When the crisis occurred, he was instantly recognized as an expert. Before returning to Princeton in late 1968, Gerry would be tbe execu¬ tive director of the President’s Cabinet Task Force on U. S. Indian Policy and part of the presidential transition team.

Throughout his tenure at Princeton, Gerry continued his patriotic service by teaching, molding, and challenging the intellect of the nation’s future leadership, as well as serving frequently as aconsultant to many government agencies and commissions. He taught American Democracy, American Bureaucracy and Public Administration, The Politics of Corporate Governance, and other courses in American con¬

stitutional interpretation and political thought. He also managed to nd time to write 11 highly regarded books. Gerry went through life making the world better and, perhaps more important causing others to think about how to do so. His family, his classmates and his students will miss him, but his spirit will live on in those whom he touched and inspired. [HT Johnson and Pete Todd, ’59)

at all the U.S. Service Academies. Karl Frederic Kellerman, III, ‘61

Gerry was widely regarded as world-class collegiate debater. Where the competition would enter the room with armloads of reference material,

he would carry only asmall World Almanac from which he would pick a few select facts on which to fashion his customarily winning arguments. His skills in debate were intimidating to opponent and, sometimes, to his own team. He was known to tell apartner before adebate, “lust don’t get us in any trouble. I’ll take care of any tough arguments they present.” In anyone else, this would have been insufferable arrogance. With Gerry, it was simply his straightforward recipe for victory. After graduation, Gerry studied at Columbia University’s Russian Lan¬ guage Institute in 1959 and received his Ph.D. from Princeton Univer¬

sity in 1962. In selecting Princeton for his graduate study he was able to lay afoundation for alifetime of superior service to his country and to the academic world he loved so deeply. Following the completion of his doctoral work in 1962, Gerry returned to the Academy as aprofessor of Political Science. While assigned there, he established and was selected as the rst president of the USAF Acad¬ emy Association of Graduates.

The senior Air Force leadership quickly recognized his talents. As a very junior of cer, Gerry was selected to join the prestigious Air Force Chief of Staff policy staff. His intellect and ability to make bis point persuasively were widely respected. Despite bis lack of legal training, the Secretary of the Air Force named him as the Policy Advisor to the General Counsel.

In 1965, the Secretary of Defense asked him to resign his commission saying, “You can do more for your country as acivilian member of my staff. ”As aproud captain in tbe Air Force and adedicated patriot, Gerry most reluctandy resigned his commission in 1966 to serve the nation as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary Defense for Defense Analysis.

Again, the breadth and depth of his talents were quickly and vndely

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Karl “Pops” Kellerman passed away of natural causes in his Virginia farmhouse on March 29,2000. One of the senior statesmen of the Class

of 1961, Pops is remembered by his classmates for his sarcastic wit and indomitable spirit. He was afather gure for many of us. Pops was born in Glen Ridge, N.I. to Margaret and Karl II in 1936. Raised in Washington, D.C., he graduated from Sidwell Friends School there, remaining close to many of his classmates throughout his life. After attending Cornell University for ayear. Pops was in the Army for two years before joining tbe Air Force Academy’s third class at Lowry AFB in Denver. He played soccer and skied, also sang in tbe choral and church choir, but he was best known for his skill at bridge. His superior and motivating counsel was truly inspiring to all of us of his "juniors.” Afavorite of his was "Youth is not measured by the amount of hair on one’s head.” Perhaps he used his bald plate as initial evi¬ dence of his sage abilities, but it didn’t take long to get to tbe essence of his being -adeep and abiding belief in and understanding of people. His interaction with all of us was the focus of his self; he was atrue friend in every sense of the word.

Pops’ Air Force career after pilot training and airlift ended as ageneral’s aide, when he was diagnosed with “sleeping sickness.” Retired medi¬ cally, he immediately got his MBA at the Wharton School of Business

and then had asuccessful civilian career in marketing with Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas before retiring as an FAA program manager. How¬ ever, he described bimself as “a sailboat builder” and then gentleman f a r m e r.

Initially married to the sister of aclassmate, Pops spent many years as asingle parent to ve children from his two wives; he also had ve grandchildren. He remained closed to all of them and to his classmates to the end, participating in most of our reunions, “derelicts” annual

Utah ski trips, and Brice lones’ World Croquet Championships. The

James Burl Kerley, '63

people in his life were his life. Pops was above all aloyal friend and a true comrade in arms. We miss him immensely. (Tom Skilling and Terry Storm, ’61)

dwarfed by his commitment to raising afamily. He and Marie took great pride in their six children. His image is carried on by Colleen, graduate student at Harvard University; Lt. j.g. John Fox, USCGA ’97;

Thomas J. Fox, ’63

P' Lt. Patrick Fox, USAFA ’98; Kathleen, recent graduate of Princeton

On Friday, May 12, 2000, Thomas J. Fox unexpectedly left us. Tom was aloving husband, adedicated family man, and aproud American. Tom was born on August 28, 1941, in Detroit Lakes, Minn., the second of three boys to the late John and Margaret Fox. Tom became quite close to his mother after his father died when he was ayoung boy. He developed into agood athlete, student, and leader with apenchant for having agood time while at Detroit Lakes High School and after gradu¬ ating in 1959, Tom left to join the Class of ’63. T. J. came to USAFA handsome, raw-boned, and athletic, with end¬

less energy and even more con dence-not to mention a17 Va-inch neck of which he was very proud. His maturity was far beyond his boyish age and he immediately became an inspirational leader. No task or obstacle was too much for the competitive spirit of Tom. Even cadets with one or two years of prior college or military service looked to T. J. for advice and leadership.

Tom, ahockey player, was disappointed when USAFA was unable to support avarsity hockey team, but the setback was short-lived as he found other contact sports to satisfy his competitive spirit. His ath¬ letic focus turned to intramural football, where he was 2nd Squadron’s middle linebacker, and even Butkus had nothing over T. J. in inten¬ sity, desire, and focus. As a rst classman, Tom was our player/coach and called ameeting of all the rst classmen on the team when we lost our rst game of the season. Some of us were two-three years older, most of us bigger —he was only 5' 9" weighing 145 pounds, but we feared the meeting and squirmed as we heard the piercing Lombardi-like chewing we received from our ery Irish coach. We didn’t lose again that season until we were edged in the Wing Cham¬ pionship. When Fox spoke-people listened. He knew how to have fun, never missing aparty, yet was no-nonsense when it came to the important aspects in life.

Adepth perception de ciency kept Tom from pilot training, which was disappointing to him and cost the U. S. Air Force ayoung warrior who was otherwise marked to be an outstanding, aggressive pilot. He turned his focus to nance, entered Acquisition and Procurement, and served with distinction in Vietnam working on key projects early in the war. His straightforward brie ngs to general of cers were impressive, refreshing, and always caught the attention of the senior staff. After

ve years in the Air Force, Tom elected to leave the service for the civil¬ ian world.

Tom enrolled at Harvard Business School and was knovm to claim

Harvard never challenged him academically like he had been at the

Academy. He asserted himself academically and graduated near the top of his class. Tom really enjoyed the Irish Catholic population of Boston. He fell in love with the young and beautiful Marie Gallivan and the two were engaged only three weeks after meeting. Afew months later they married, formalizing arelationship of love, faith, and respect that would last almost 30 years.

Tom went on to executive positions for several companies and bounced all around the country before settling his family on aNew

Hampshire farm. The farm gave Tom achance to pursue his love of working outdoors, growing vegetables, and instilling character in his children the old fashioned way. He became so pro cient in crop devel¬ opment that he created anew pumpkin breed, “The Tom Fox Pump¬ kin,” which sells nationwide. However, Tom’s professional interests were

University; Timothy, sophomore at Worchester Polytechnic University; and Molly, sophomore at Bishop Brady High School in Concord, N.H. 2Timothy 4-7 “I have fought the good ght. Ihave nished my course. Ihave kept the faith." All those who knew and loved Tom will profoundly miss him. (Dick Shutack, ’63, and T‘ Lt. Patrick Fox, ’98) James Burl Kerley, ’63

The Class of '63 lost one of its nest on 12 January ’00 when Jim Kerley lost his long battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 59. Ser¬ vices were held on 15 January at Paci c View Memorial where he is now buried. Burl, as most referred to him, was agentle giant with an infec¬

tious laugh and apleasant smile. He befriended all that touched him with his easy going and friendly personality topped with adown-home Tennessee accent. This accent often invited his spouting of fourth class

knowledge at the dinner table -especially if the Table Commandant was

aYankee. Those of us who were fortunate enough to spend all four years

vnth Burl in the 2"'* Squadron at USAFA knew aman of laid back con ¬ dence who never took himself too seriously and was never raided by the

rigors of cadet life. He was extremely loyal to his friends and a erce competitor on the athletic elds or in the gym. Academically Burl was not very fond of English composition nor the study of aforeign language but he was an outstanding student when it came to math and the sci¬ ences. He also had an early fascination for computers.

Burl was no stranger to the military as his Dad was an of cer in the Army Air Corp during WWII, his older brother, John is agraduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (Class of ’61) while his younger brother, Marvin is an Army veteran who served with distinction in Vietnam. Although Burl attended the local schools in Newport, Tennessee for his rst 11 years of

schooling he graduated from the Columbia Military Academy after spending his senior high school year at this boarding school about 200 miles from his home. This is probably where he perfected the uncanny

ability to sneak in a2minute nap as tbe minute caller started his 5minute countdovm to aformation. After high school Burl attended the Univer¬

sity of Tennessee for one year prior to receiving an appointment to the Air Force Academy from Sen. Estes Kefauver. Upon graduation from

USAFA, Burl elected to take his commission in the U.S. Navy and follow

his brother John’s footsteps. He attended pilot training at Pensacola then was assigned to Corpus Christi, TX for advanced training. His rst PCS assignment was to San Diego, CA to y the Willie Fud (E-1B) early warn¬ ing aircraft a.k.a. "the Stoof with aRoof.” Burl often said, “She’s not real pretty but sure gets the job done.” He served bis country proudly ying carrier based combat missions off the USS Hancock and USS Enterprise

on two separate tours in Vietnam. His nal years on active duty were spent as aJet Instructor Pilot in Meridian, MS.

In 1969 Burl joined United Airlines but continued to y with the Navy Reserves and retired with the rank of Commander in 1984. With adown¬

turn in the U.S. economy in the early 70’s Burl was furloughed for sev¬

eral years by United but, like always, be turned anegative into aposi¬ tive and immediately found work in the computer industry while y¬ ing with the Reserves in San Diego. He had moved to Newport Beach, CA with his family and called that home the remainder of his life. Upon his recall to United, Burl ew several aircraft including the 737, 727, DCIO and the 747. Burl is survived by his wife Terry; stepson,

Kennon, rst wife, Peggy and their daughters Kristine and Michelle,

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Thomas J. Fox, ’63

Thomas C. Munch, ‘66

ve grandchildren, ve step grandchildren and brothers John and Marvin. Burl’s love for ying was exceeded only by his love for his family and his enthusiasm for life. This love sustained him as he courageously fought the ravages of his disease for several years. lam sure that even in his last moments Burl had asmile on his face, as he knew he had lived agood and just life and was leaving this earth as the warrior he had always been. Dear friend, you are missed by us all. Oh, that Ihad wings like adove, for then would I y away, and be at rest. Psalms 55:6 The family appreciates Memorial donations to the American Cancer Society. Another cause important to Burl is acompany called EntreMed (ENMD on the NASDAQ.) EntreMed has cured cancer tumors in mice

and is now in human testing with its cure. (Richard Shutack, ‘63) Donald B.Frazee, ‘64

Brad was the exemplar of aguy vnth both lots of intelligence and too much free time. He could look at any calculus equation and with an instantaneous “Aha!” visualize its derivation. Here was atvizard never

seen to crack abook, yet he passed every course with aminimum of effort. So minimal were Brad’s efforts that he managed to graduate in the upper 9/10 of his class. Known as “Frazzle” or “Reddy Kilowatt” to those who liked him —and everyone did —Brad was never amember of any in-crowd, but that didn’t seem to bother him very much. He spent most of his early free time —which was considerable —doing mathematical puzzles, reading science ction, debunking political logic, and visualizing electronic schematics. Even before the late 1960’s Age of Aquarius, Brad dabbled in every knovm religious and political cult from Aku-Aku to Zen —not as abeliever, but because he was both bright and curious.

Now it can be told. Bored by the academic challenges of USAFA, Brad funneled his considerable intelligence and abilities into DCN (Drivingthe-Commandant-Nuts). Around 1962 Brad became aself-taught master locksmith and USAFA’s rst unof cial leader of the legendary Terrazzo Skulkers. He organized delighted doolies into volunteer mid¬ night squads who post-midnight would silently move various unmov¬ able aircraft into creative locations. The BeU X-4 had an annoying habit of appearing on parade elds, in the Air Garden pools, and perhaps on rooftops. So successful were these Copper eldesque dematerializa¬ tions, that the legendary disappearing X-4 has since been quiedy re¬ tired to acemented-down spot behind Arnold Hall. Brad voluntarily passed up pilot training to enter the Air Force’s brandnew egghead career eld of computer science. After graduation, this took Brad to postings as diverse as Alaska and Florida, and into the hushed halls of the Foreign Technology Division. But in the 1970s, Brad mysteriously disappeared from the Air Force roles. It was rumored that

aguy so brilliant and eccentric could only have been recruited, alter¬

paginated Supreme Court opinions. In the early 1980s he was recruited at Compugraphic to drive software development of their rst worksta¬

tion-based Electronic Publishing system. Tiring of the publishing arena, but always seeking the technical bleeding edge, Brad pursued acareer in Internet companies, most recently Cascade Systems and Art Tech¬

nology Group. To friends, family, and colleagues alike. Brad was agentle mentor, con¬ stantly stimulating intellectual pursuits and sharing information from his extensive reading. He retained his fascination with obscure religions. His interests stretched from microprocessors to Aikido. He also bridged the gap to his children’s friends, the many young people who came to his house. Brad treated each young person with the same respect and con¬ sideration that he showed his adult friends and colleagues, allowing ideas to compete and ourish on their own merit. Through his own drive to expand his knowledge and his always inquisitive approach to life, he

taught the people in his life, young or old, to never give up learning. Brad had asense of humor and an imagination that matched his intellect. He was aman of amazing stories full of detail tmd imagery that could be triggered by areference to almost any topic.

His wife, Cyndi Mills: daughters Krista, Maria, and Dana; son Lloyd, and three grandchildren survive Brad. Brad, we—your classmates, friends, and family —will miss you, but only in body. The Spirit of Frazzle still moves through USAFA. Even tonight you’ll hear the dis¬ tant cry, “You man! Halt!’’ followed by scattering shadowy gures and the next morning’s discovery of assorted objects mounted atop ag¬ poles, ridiculously clothed statues, and teletransported aircraft. Fur¬ thermore, we’re certain Brad easily made it into heaven, because if he didn’t make it past the Pearly Gates in the usual way, then he let him¬ self in with his self-made DES decryption codes. (Fred Malmstrom, ‘64, Fred lannelli, Cyndi Mills) Thomas C. Munch, ‘66

Thomas Christopher Munch passed away on Aug. 28,1999 in Las Ve¬ gas, Nev. Tom was born in Sarasota, Fla. May 16, 1944. He graduated from the Academy in 1966, received his MBA from the University of Oklahoma in 1970, and his Master ofTheology degree from Fuller Theo¬ logical Seminary in 1986. At the time of his death he was adeacon at

his church, Calvary Apostolic Church, amember of the Friends of Red Rock Conservation Club, and his union. He was also employed by the Yellow Cab Company. According to his father. Brig. Gen. (Ret) Christopher Munch, “Tom went directly from Air Academy High School up the hill and into the Academy as amember of the Sixth Squadron. He quickly developed an enthusiastic loytdty toward his squadron and classmates. In high school he was atackle on his team, and was elected to the Colorado

natively, by the CIA, the NSA, or even SPECTRE itself.

All-State Team, but he couldn’t qualify as a“walk on” for the Falcon

The truth is less romantic but no less impressive. After leaving the Air Force he started working at NCR in Dayton, Ohio. Brad’s title was “senior programmer” but in reality he was always the technical and intellectual hub of his group. His capacity to reduce statements and problems to their most basic aspects was tapped by all his colleagues. He suffered fools well unless they interfered with his pursuit of asolu¬ tion or with his efforts to help us think clearly. His coffee cup displayed the motto “Anything not worth doing is most certainly not worth doing well”. Brad gave and earned respect from those who competed in the

freshman squad.

world of ideas and solutions.

Brad, the programmer’s programmer, moved to New England in 1979 where he joined ATEX, aleading-edge electronic typesetting company. He broke new ground leading asoftware team developing software that

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DonaldB.Frazee, ‘64

‘He frequently surprised us by bringing to our quarters his fourth class year what seemed like platoons of classmates for hassle-free spa¬ ghetti inhalation sessions. He couldn’t meet the physical requirements

for ight training, and his short Air Force career was spent minding a missile for SAC. He earned in his off-duty hours an MBA from the Uni¬ versity of Oklahoma to aid in his next assignment in procurement. ‘Tom carried with him from the Academy an absolute sense of hon¬

esty and honor, and adevotion to duty sensibly rounded by caring and compassion. He was always adeeply religious person, and on leaving active duty he completed aMaster’s in Theology degree at Fuller Theo¬

logical College, which he used in Las Vegas where he sel essly supported an independent church and taught in its religious studies programs.

H. Evans Whaley ’71

There he lived alife of caring and no-nonsense support for persons whose stumbling came to his attention. He embraced his life of selfsacri ce and reaching out to counsel and aid those undergoing nan¬ cial and emotional stress.

‘Tom and his friends were part of alarge and festive birthday cel¬ ebration for aseriousiy ill colleague where he and other friends of the honoree staged the evening’s humorous interlude of skits and songs. In one of those light-hearted moments he suffered afatal heart attack. He left us as he lived in the midst of acaring act to raise the spirits of an ailing and disabled friend. Farewell, our gentle giant.” Tom is survived by his wife, Cyndi; daughter Pamela Anne, parents

JamesV Ojala,72 controls of an F-4 during Steve Ritchie’s goodwill tour stopover at the 117* Air Refueling Wing in Birmingham, Ala. where Whale was the pro¬

foundly loved and respected wing commander. Prior to the unit transitioning to KC-135S sometime ago, he had spent many enjoyable years in the cockpit of an RF-4, including extended deployments dur¬ ing Desert Shield.

It is clearly the smile on his face that says it all to me. The same all¬ occasion, fun-loving grin so weli known to all of his Academy football teammates and near lifelong buddies who rightfully felt privileged to call him our friend. Still, as anumber of us learned at his funeral, we

were far, very far, from alone in having had the honor of sharing apor¬

Anne and Chris, brothers and sisters Chris Munch, Bonnie Knuti, David

tion of his life and in having been able to call him our good friend.

Munch, Molly Wittenberg, and Anne Munch; and many loving cous¬

The outpouring of affection, respect and grievous loss displayed at his funeral by family, friends and fellow Guardsmen was nothing short of mind-boggling. Literally thousands of people from throughout the

ins, nieces and nephews. H. Evans Whaley ’71

civilian and Guard community were there in collective shock and dis¬

If ever apicture served as an accurate and visualiy persistent encap¬ sulation of the spirit of amuch-missed friend, this one is it. As best as Ican tell, this is the last picture ever taken of ‘‘The Whale”, made the week before his tragic death in the crash of acivilian aircraft near AliceviUe, Ala. on May 23, 2000. There he sits, once again behind the

belief that the big guy was gone; that his friendly, booming voice had been stilled. The Governor of Alabama, at least adozen general of c¬ ers, what must have been the entire 117* ARW, neighbors, members of his church, teams he had coached and about adozen of us from the Class of ’71 were on hand for afuneral that literally brought Birming¬ ham traf c to astandstill.

Former Academy Catholic Chaplain Dies at 77

There is no way to express the extent of the loss his death holds for so many people. We, his Academy classmates, knew and will always re¬ member him as agreat guy. But, such was his intrinsic modesty in all things, that not even we who had known him for over 30 years had any idea of what agreat man he actually was. Whale truly gave more than he got in everything he did and took his natural leadership to include a concern and compassion for others that inherently obligated him to do all he could to make their life better. It must be that we can be too

close to greatness to recognize it except through the eyes of others or in facing the void that’s left when its gone. Whale was, in every respect that occurs to me, bigger than life.

His wife, Jemie Lytm, is one of the bravest people Iknow, to be able to soldier on with the emptiness in her life she now faces. His mother and sister, who lost yet another son and brother 17 years ago in the crash of an Alabama Guard RF-4, displayed adignity and serenity throughout the or¬ R e v. R o b e r t J . S h a n n o n

Rev. Robert J. Shannon, age 77, died from heart failure on July 25, 2000. Father Bob Shannon served as the Command Chaplain at the

Air Force Academy from 1972 until his retirement in 1976. He was an inspirational leader to many cadets. His backslapping, cigar-chomping trademark reinforced to cadets that sometimes daily Mass was as help¬ ful as studying for GRs and nals. The many cadets who attended his daily “Tiger” Mass remarked at the motivation, inspiration, and daiiy sports scores they would get to make it through another grueling Academy day of academics, athlet¬ ics, and military duty. After Father Shannon’s Air Force retirement, he moved back to his

beioved hometown of Chicago, 111. to continue his ministries in the Arch¬ dioceses of Chicago. He served as director of Pastoral Care Depart¬ ment and later director of the Alcohol and Drug Dependency Program

at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, 111. Since retirement from Mercy Hospital, he assisted in pastoral duties at St. Cletus Parish, LaGrange, 111. He was the recipient of the Air Force Charles I. Carpenter Award as the Outstanding USAF Chaplain and re¬ ceived two Legion of Merit Awards. He was the uncie of Julie Callaghan Donatelli, wife of Michael Donatelli, USAFA '79. (Mike Donatelli, ‘79)

deal of laying Whale to rest that bespeak their profound belief in God and the comfort only He can provide in these unspeakably dif cult times. His sons, Jim and Andy, are obviously young men of strong character who have been carved from the same granite as their father and cannot help but be

destined to display the same greamess of spirit that their dad brought to

all he did. None of them can have missed the fact that we aU thought that he was nothing less than something extraordinary. Hail and farewell. Whale; alife well lived that made so many the richer

for having been blessed with your presence and now your enduring memory. Well done, good and faithful servant. (William J.Kubida, '71) James V. Ojala, ’72

We have recently lost agood friend and outstanding individual, James Victor OjaJa, known to us in the Class of ‘72 as “OJ”. Jim passed away Jan. 18, 2000 after along battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife, Darlene, and their children, Victor and Genevieve. Jim was a ghter to the end, as he was his whole life. OJ has had more than the usual amount of tough breaks in his life, but he was always able to carry on and do it with asmile.

OJ came to us from Ely, Minn. And was in CS-28 his rst year and in CS-29 for the remaining three years. He was squadron commander one semester and also was aDJ on the Academy’s rst cadet-run radio

Okla. and left the Air Force at the rank of captain after his ve-year com¬ mitment in order to spend more time v«th his growing family. He fa¬ thered two sons: Matthew, achemical engineering major at UT Austin, and Mark, abusiness communications major atTCU in Fort Worth. Tony was an involved parent who served as aCuh Scout den leader

Anthony C.Gudeczauskas, Jr., ‘74 station. He graduated with aBS in political science and went to Will¬ iams AFB for pilot training. He later ew OV-lOs, A- 10s and Wild Wea¬ sel F-4s, with assignments in Thailand, Myrtle Beach, Davis-Monthan and George AFB.

When OJ left the Air Force in 1980, he changed career paths and be¬ came amechanical engineer and worked in several nuclear power plant facilities. He tackled this change like he did everything in his life, even¬ tually earning two master’s degrees and aprofessional mechanical en¬ gineer rating. OJ was well respected by his peers and adevoted father to his family. Ihave had the privilege of knowing Jim ali the years while

at the Academy and beyond. He was always persistent in everything he attempted. He and Ispent the summer after graduation traveling the country, and aperson could not ask for a ner companion. OJ led avery active life and tried not to worry others with his ovm

problems. He preferred to ght his own battles and he always believed he would be able to beat the cancer and fought it to the very end. He

and coach before his illness. He spent many hours in the swimming pool with Matt and Mark; as aresult they are both strong swimmers. From childhood, Tony was agifted athiete who always worked at stay¬ ing t. He played football, participated in track and eld, and enjoyed golf and marksmanship. He was adedicated jogger who participated in the Cowtown lOK for several years with his children. He was amen¬ tal athlete as well -abrilliant mathematician who particularly loved the challenge of strategy games. On the home front, he was aself-taught gourmet chef who enjoyed surprising his famiiy with creative meals, especially breakfasts. He had an entrepreneurial, optimistic spirit that was apparent even as he was becoming ill with Huntington’s Disease. He frequently en¬ couraged his brothers and sisters to seek out business opportunities and spotted trends long before others did. It was tragic losing Tony at such ayoung age, as he was so gifted and had such potential. He will always be missed. (Susan Waterman, Tony’s little sister)

At press time we had learned of the deaths of the following gradu¬ ates:

Lt. Col. (Ret) Leonard R. Kmczynski, Class of 1965, who died on May 11, 2000 of leukemia in Stanford, Calif. Mr. Richard J. Robbins, Class of 1965, who died on Jan. 1,1984 in Montgomery, Ala.

Lt. Col. (Ret) Tyson E. Weihe, Class of 1966, who died on May 9,

has been agood friend and has touched many people’s lives. He will be missed by all. (Jim Stettler, ’72)

2000 of pancreatic cancer in Wichita, Kans. Lt. Col. (Ret) Donald S. Bowers, Jr., Class of 1970, who died on

Anthony C.Gudeczauskas, Jr, ‘74

June 19, 2000 in the crash of aCessna 185 in the Alaskan Range. Mr. John W. Jones III, Class of 1971, who died on May 4, 2000 in

Anthony C. Gudeczauskas, Jr., died on Feb. 28, 2000, at the Eleanor

Santa Barbara, Calif. 1st Lt. (MedRet) Keith RAndrews, Class of 1972, who died of a

Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit, in Pascoag, R. I., from complications of Huntington’s Disease. He was 47 years old. He had returned to Rhode Island in 1995 when his illness progressed to an extent that prevented him from working or living independendy. After he graduated from the Air Force Academy, Tony furthered his education obtaining amaster’s degree in Business Administration from

!heart attack on April 9, 2000 in Salamanca, Spain. IMaj. (USAFR Ret) John C. Tfettin, Class of 1976, who died on June

I12,2000 from injuries suffered when hit by avehicle while bike riding in Germany.

Maj. Eric J. Hemp, Class of 1984, who died on April 15, 2000 in a

Oklahoma City University. He was always interested in computer sci¬

house

ence and also took post-graduate courses in this area at the University of Texas at Arlington. He was employed by General Dynamics as asoft¬

leukemia in Midlothian, Texas.

ware engineer in Fort Worth, Texas.

Tony married Cheryl Goff while stationed at Tinker AFB, Midwest City,

AOG Offers Information on Wills Horror stories abound concerning very successful, fabulously wealthy famous people who failed to properly plan their estates. Their business acumen was excellent but they failed to plan for their deaths. In some cases they did the “right” things in the “wrong” way.

For example, one wealthy entrepreneur died childless intending that his fortune would protect his widow and then pass to selected chari¬ ties. He did the “right things” by leaving aWill which appointed execu¬ tors and made charitable bequests. He had set up charitable founda¬ tions and charitable remainder trusts. However, seven years after his death, the estate still was not settled and its size had shrunk from $200

million to $60 million. What went wrong?

First, the Will appointed several private individuals, including his wife, as executors. The individuals each had vested interests in the estate

and could not agree. Several were ultimately charged with enriching themselves and squandering the funds. Choose executors carefully and anticipate con ict. It is usually best to choose acorporate duciarywho is honest and disinterested. The fees charged by such atrust depart¬ ment are not inexpensive but are far less than the costs incurred from

re in Calhan, Colo.

Mr. Gregory S. Survll, Class of 1987, who died on April 12, 2000 of Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of these gradu¬ ates.

Third, there was no inventory of assets. Putting your affairs in order means you must let the executors know what you own and where the property is located. Fourth, the individual had established acharitable foundation, mul¬

tiple charitable remainder trusts, multiple real estate holding compa¬ nies, and the Wiil included bequests to more than four dozen separate charities. This collection of entities was far more complex than was necessary to accomplish his purposes and actually invited expensive, time consuming litigation. Work with nancial and legal experts to make your estate plan as simple as possible. But didn’t “professionals” create this collection of trusts and foundations? Yes, but they acted only on the information they were given. If you tell atrust department to establish atrust, they will do it. However, to create an estate plan, you must give avariety of professionals the complete picture of what is in your estate and what you want to accomplish. Only then can the disasters described above be avoided.

The Association of Graduates has prepared abrochure on estate plan¬ ning which is free for the asking. Piease contact Gary Howe (‘69) at (719) 472-0300 or e-mail to Gary.Howe@usafa.af.mil.

poor management.

Second, the Will was not found until several months after his death

because it was in abox of papers in his basement. AWill which cannot

be found is the same as having no Will at all. Make sure your attorney, accountant, and/or other family members know where the Will is lo¬ cated and how to gain access to it.

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within one mile —he was down within 25 miles of downtown Belgrade and within 10 miles of Batajnica Air eld, Serbia’s primary MIG ghter base. Three major Serb brigades —the 544”' Mounted Infantry, 303d Engineering, and 453d Armored Brigade—were within 10 miles of the survivor. Current intelligence also indicated that Serbian ground forces had successfully intercepted the survivor’s radio transmissions and were both closing in on his position and actively seeking to engage the res¬ cue forces. En route to the survivor’s reported location. Major Cardoso

coming activities.

led the ight through amyriad of mobile threats and uncharted ob¬

Major Cardoso distinguished himself as aircraft commander and ight lead of the special operations rescue ight during the recovery of an TUnerican ghter pilot who ejected deep inside enemy territory during Operation ALLIED FORCE. At approximately 1945 Greenwich Mean

stacles, skillfully employing the Integrated Defensive Avionics System/

Time on March 27, 1999, the survivor, aU.S. Air Force F-117 stealth

to-air missile (SAM) engagement zones along their route of ight.

ghter pilot, ejected during abombing mission over Belgrade, Serbia. Major Cardoso was assigned as ight lead of aspecial operations heli¬ copter ight forward deployed on combat search and rescue alert when

Flying over the moonless, overcast darkness at less than 100 feet above the ground —with the terrain-following radar off to avoid enemy de¬ tection —they dodged high-tension power lines, telephone poles, and

the survivor’s “MAYDAY” call came in. Despite limited information on the survivor’s location, Major Cardoso launched into the zero illumi¬

searchlight aids as they ingressed to the survivor. As they approached the downed pilot’s last known location, low ceilings precluded the A10 rescue escort aircraft from visually identifying the survivor and elimi¬ nated their capacity to provide close air support for the rescue pack¬ age. Major Cardoso’s ight was suddenly alone at the objective —iso¬ lated by low ceilings, one-half mile visibility, zero moon illumination,

nation night to rescue afellow airman.

Multi-Mission Airborne Tactical Terminal (IDAS/MATT) on its

rst-ever

combat mission. Despite active tracking by Serbian radar throughout

the ight, Major Cardoso deftly avoided several SA-3 and SA-6 surface-

and unknown small arms and infrared SAM threat from amassed en¬

emy forces. The task of locating the survivor and recovering him safely was formidable at best. At the objective area, the ight discovered the dovmed pilot was near amajor road where vehicles were stopping at

regular intervals to dismount soldiers and search dogs to hunt the American airman. At one point, the evading pilot had search dogs within 30 feet of his position. The dovmed pilot reported enemy move¬ ment to the south and helicopters nearby.

Rather than continue to overtly search the area while Yugoslav ground forces closed in on the survivor, the rescue forces needed away to pin¬

point the pilot’s location immediately. The survivor’s infrared strobe light was inoperative, and he was unable to locate his pen-gun ares.

Major James Cardoso, ‘88, the2000Jabara Award for Airmanship win¬ ner, is shown at right with his aircrew of Moccasin 60, the aircraft that was ight lead for the heroic mission which led to the award. From left are MSgt John Dubuisson, aerial gunner; Capt. John Glass, copilot; TSgt Ed Hux, ight engineer; SSgt Bill Clemons, ight engineer; and SrA Chris Bloom eld, aerial gunner. (Courtesy photo) Major Cardoso was faced with asigni cant challenge. The remain¬ der of the combat search and rescue task force (CSARTF) was not yet

assembled and ready to proceed to the recovery area. The CSARTF package, consisting of strike, air superiority, escort, and suppression of enemy air defense ghters, as well as airborne command and con¬ trol assets, took longer than anticipated to assemble, refuel, and pre¬ pare for the “push” into enemy territory. The delay required to assemble the remaining package meant the ight would either be forced to land in contested territory to conserve fuel or coordinate an impromptu helicopter air refueling. Knowing that every minute the downed pilot was on the ground was tipping the scales in favor of the Serbs, Major Cardoso landed his ight in an area of eastern Slavonia vnthin afew miles of the Serbian border to conserve fuel. He directed the formation’s

positioning on the ground to ensure overlapping elds of re while they waited in the heavily Serb-occupied border area. As the CSARTF took shape. Major Cardoso requested an air refueling with anewly arrived MC-130P Combat Shadow. With the MC-130P on station, the major awlessly led his ight through alow-level night vi¬ sion goggle air refueling, communications out and zero lighting to mini¬ mize their exposure to the enemy. Despite their location —just west of the Serbian border —and being tracked by Yugoslav early warning radar. Major Cardoso’s ight maintained position and took enough fuel to penetrate deep into Serbian territory, effect the pickup, and return to friendly lines. Once the downed pilot was authenticated on the ra¬ dio by CSARTF forces. Major Cardoso led his three-ship package across the border and

ew into the teeth of one of the most heavily armed air

defense networks in the world.

By now, the survivor’s coordinates had been re ned to an accuracy

This left only an overt daytime are as aviable signaling option. Major Cardoso directed the pilot to ignite his are, marking his position for the rescue package, but also for the rapidly closing enemy forces. Ma¬

jor Cardoso instandy spotted the survivor less than one-half mUe away from the helicopter package. Assessing the survivor’s position relative to the formation. Major Cardoso directed the ight’s more maneuverable MH-60G helicopter to execute the pickup so he could continue to

maintain “eyes-on-target.” He established adefensive re orbit with the more heavily armed and protected MH-53 by placing his two re¬

maining aircraft between survivor and approaching enemy ground

forces. In less than aminute, the MH-60G executed the recovery and departed the landing zone. Once airborne. Major Cardoso reconstituted the formation and set

out for the journey back to safety. The 30-minute route to the forward deployed location was now strevm with alerted Serbian forces that were not only aware of their location, but were actively utilizing anti-aircraft barrage re, search lights, and small arms tactics to block their egress route. Major Cardoso again employed his electronic warfare equip¬ ment to assess the threat and directed his formation to alower altitude

to minimize their exposure. Traveling at treetop level, the ight suc¬ cessfully evaded multiple searchlights and small arms threats to arrive at asafe location

ve and ahalf hours after initial takeoff.

Major Cardoso’s outstanding poise, bravery, and professional exper¬

tise as ight lead were essential for the successful rescue of the survi¬ vor. This bold mission prompted Gen. Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, to comment that “CSAR is more precious than stealth.” Additionally, President Clinton called and personally ex¬

pressed his admiration for bravery displayed and the vital importance of this successful operation in achieving our national objectives. The other distinguished nominees for the 2000 Jabara Award were: Lt. Col. P. Mason Carpenter, Class of 1980, was nominated by Air Com¬ bat Command (ACC) for exemplary leadership and visionary improve¬ ments in F-117A tactics and employment which provided the Air Force

with the most signi cant advancement in the combat capability of the F-117A Nighthawk since the introduction of the aircraft. (Continued on next page.)

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Major James Cardoso, '88, Earns Jabara Award for Heroism Maj. James L. Cardoso, Class of 1988, has been named the winner of the 2000 Colonel James Jabara Award for Airmanship for his courageous actions during acombat search and rescue over Serbia during Opera¬ tion ALLIED FORCE. Maj. Cardoso was nominated by Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) for his actions, which not only saved the life of afellow pilot, but also inspired con dence in every other ALLIED FORCE aviator —if shot down, rescue is immi¬ nent. The award will be presented to Major Cardoso during Home¬

By Master Sgt. Ken Carter Directorate of Public Affairs

Former Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Tad J. Oelstrom was an Air Force Academy cadet second class in August 1963, John F. Kennedy was serving as president preceding the dark days our nation would enter following his assassination. The Vietnam con ict was heating up. For many cadets here today, their parents were but children them¬

selves. That year also marked the arrival of an Academy admissions personnel clerk who retired this year on April 28“' after more than a half century of service to his country.

‘Being single and enjoying my profession and the camaraderie all these years has made staying at the Academy for so long apleasure," Galaid said. As for the most enjoyable aspects of his lengthy career, he said, ‘‘seeing families grow, and lots of people getting promoted have been highlights for me. Although it was always dif cult when friends transferred or separated."

Full of anticipation of what lies ahead, Galaid said working at the Colorado Springs Humane Society may be in his future. His childhood love for pets is as strong as ever and he's ready to explore whatever life’s next chapter holds, fThe Academy Spiritj

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MSgt Ken Carter) In 36 years, Hal Galaid has seen tens of thousands of cadets come

and go and served under 13 of the Academy’s 14 superintendents. Ac¬ cording to Galaid’s supervisor, Rollie Stoneman, Academy director of Selections, he has always provided the continuity critical to the suc¬ cess of the Academy admissions staff. “Hal is an institution within the institution ... this is truly the end of an era. Reading through his biog¬ raphy recently was like attending alesson in American history,”

Atlanta Carmel Hanscom AFB

of roses to abed of hot coals ... it’s up to the individual. (Jabara Award Winner: From previous page.) Lt. Col. Christopher J. Golob, Class of 1980, was nominated by the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) for superior performance as the deputy mission commander for the humanitarian request from the National Sci¬ ence Foundation ongoing project at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Maj. Paul W. Rigney, Class of 1981, was nominated by the Air Intelli¬ gence Agency (AIA) for his superior performance and contributions to the aerospace mission.

Maj. William L. Thomas, Class of 1986, was nominated by Air Force Element/Personnel Exchange Program (AFELM/PEP) for gallantry in connection with military operations against the former Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in support of Operation ALLIED FORCE. Maj. Steve R. Gionvenella, Class of 1988, was nominated by Air Edu¬ cation and Training Command (AETC) for his gallantry in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force at or near Kosovo as he led atwo-ship ight of F-16s in anight Kosovo Engage¬ ment Zone mission during Operation ALLIED FORCE.

Maj. Glenn L. Graham, Class of 1988, was nominated by Air Eorce Materiel Command (AFMC) for sustained superior performance as experimental test pilot and aircrew ight commander of the 445“' Elight Test Squadron (ELTS), 412“- Test Wing, Edwards AEB, CA. Maj. David E. Pollmiller, Class of 1988, was nominated by Air Mobil¬

16 Cents for Each Dollar Raised That’s what it costs the AOG to raise money to support itself and the Air Force Academy. This gure ($.158 to be precise) is derived from the 1998 Audit Report by dividing total fund-raising costs by total direct public support. It costs money to raise money but the AOG is working hard to keep this cost as low as possible

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In three and ahalf decades, Galaid’s seen the good, the bad and the ugly .. .and, “Through it all. I’ve made lots of great friends,” he said. “The military experience overall (both active and civil service) has been very enjoyable. It’s whatever you make it. It can be anything from abed

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ity Command (AMC) for sustained superior performance as the lead mission planner and expert airmanship as aircraft commander for the

rst-ever C-17 re-supply mission to Antarctica. Capt. Gary Culbertson, Class of 1994, was nominated by United States

Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) for gallantry in military operations against Yugoslav air defenses as aWild Weasel Suppression of Enemy Air De¬ fenses (SEAD) pilot for aNATO strike package. Capt. Julie A. Grandahl, Class of 1995, was nominated by Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) for demonstrated leadership and superior performance in providing helicopter airlift for the 90“’ Space Wing throughout a12,600-mile area.

Jabara Award winners are selected by the Academy and the Associa¬ tion of Graduates on behalf of the Jabara family. The award, estab¬ lished in 1967, recognizes aUSAFA graduate whose contributions are of such signi cance as to set them apart from their contemporaries. Nominees’ actions must be directly associated with an aerospace ve¬ hicle or component.

The award is named in honor of Gol. James Jabara, America’s rst jet ace and second leading ace in the Korean War. AJabara Award Selec¬ tion Committee composed of graduates screens the nominations and recommends arecipient for the Superintendent’s approval.

Serving on their year’s selection committee were: Col. Harry Davis, ‘71 (Chairman); Lt. Col. Peggy Ball, ‘80; Lt. Col. Francis Chun, ‘83; Lt. Col. Steven Muhs, ‘81; Col. (Ret) Dick Rauschkolb, ‘70; and Col. Randy Spetman, ‘76.

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Super Bowl Sunday. Ron, ’71, and Barb Marusiak again graciously hosted the annual 2000 Super Bowl party. This annual event of the Arizona Chapter was alot of fun, and achance to catch up with our chapter members. Please call Jim Sienicki, ’74, at (602) 382-6351 if you would like to host the next Super Bowl party. Air Force Falcons vs. UNLV. Our Chapter will

be traveling to Las Vegas to attend the Sept. 30, 2000 football game at UNLV. We will send out a yer to our members. Tim Furst, ’78, will coor¬ dinate the tailgate party/pep rally before the game. Tim always does agreat job getting the group ready to cheer the Falcons to victory be¬ fore agame. Diamondbacks Game. If there is enough in¬

terest, we will get together at Leinenkugel’s be¬ fore aDiamondbacks game and then attend the baseball game. Bring your entire family and If lends. Call or e-mail me if you are interested. Holidays Cocktail or Dinner Party. We are planning aNovember/December cocktail or dinner party. Once the plans are nalized, we will be sending a yer out to everyone on our email and/or mailing list. If you have recently moved to Arizona or have not received our mailings, please also contact Jim Sienicki at 602-382-6351, jsienicki @ swlaw.com at Snell &Wilmer, L.L.R to be added

to the mailing list. If you have not paid your yearly chapter dues ($20/year) for 2000, please send your check to John Mahoney, 545 East Campina Drive, Litch eld Park, Ariz. 853404226, 602-935-0203, e-mail: 72032.304@ compuserve.com.

In addition, please e-mail or send your e-mail address(es), as well as your current address and telephone number so we can better serve you and cut down on some of our mailing expenses.

Be sure to signup for the annual trip to West Point on Nov. 3rd to cheer the Falcons on to vic¬

tory. We plan to provide transportation, lodging and tailgate activities in coordination with the New York Chapter. Aluncheon on Nov. 1st in the D.C. area is also in the works. All grads in the Capital Chapter region are invited to participate. Also, we are trying to update an e-mail distri¬ bution system for all graduates and supporters in the region. If you currently reside in the Na¬ tional Capital Region and want to be included on the e-mail distribution, please contact Maj. Stacy McNutt, ‘88, at (703) 588-5013. For more information on any events, to join

the Capital Chapter, or to update your member¬ ship information, contact Maj. Myland Pride, 89, at (703) 614-7974 (e-mail: mpride89 @aol.com). Or visit our web site at users.erols .com/ccaog.

How to Request Academy Staff as Speakers In order for the Academy staff to provide better assistance to AOG Chapters seeking speakers from the Academy, please submit aletter to HQ USAFA/XPAA, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-5241, at least six months in ad¬

vance, with the following information: What, when, where? Who on the Academy staff would you like to have speak at your func¬ tion? Also provide the names of two other speakers you would like to have if your rst or second choice is not available.

To aid speaker preparation, we will also need to know the audience, along with any particular interest of the group in any aspect of the Academy, and recommended speaker’s attire for the event. Please include spouses, parents’ clubs, LOs, etc.) and what the occasion is for the event.

Apoint of contact for the event (i.e., name,

C A P I TA L C H A P T E R

address, home and work phone numbers) is needed to make the appropriate arrangements.

Our annual Spring Golf Tournament on June

lites available for display in the cadet area. The Academy’s Operation Air Force summer train¬ ing now includes cadet exposure to space-related sites, with some support from the chapter (al¬ though there wasn’t enough time in the sched¬ ule to do all the things we had in mind.) We are also continuing to work with the Academy to im¬ prove the Visitor Center’s space-related exhibits. The chapter has been requested to participate in areview of USAFA’s space-related curriculum, in support of the accreditation process. Since

the chapter represents agood cross-section of the “constituents” of the program, our perspec¬

tives will provide useful insights. On the other hand, many of the activities we had envisioned have not happened as rapidly as we had hoped. In particular, it has been dif¬ cult to get the cadets and faculty to take ad¬ vantage of our offers of support, such as speak¬ ers, activities with local military and civilian or¬

ganizations, and other contacts. We also hope to become more involved with the construction

and ight of cadet satellites. We are working to improve our ability to interact with cadets, rec¬ ognizing that they are VERY busy. The chapter’s new web site, http://hometown .aol.com/usafaspace/spacechapter.html, pro¬ vides an improved focus for communication among our members. In fact, one unexpected feature of chapter membership is that it has provided an effective way to exchange informa¬ tion about events, which are affecting the fu¬ ture of the Air Force in space.

All graduates are welcome to join this chap¬ ter. Check out the web site for more insights into

the kind of activities and topics under consid¬ eration, and contact Stan Rosen, ’69, at srosenS @aol.com or call 310-364-5746.

who will be in the audience (i.e., alums,

(Jim Sienicki, ’74, Arizona Chapter president)

Greetings from the Capital Chapter! We con¬ tinue to have great support in the National Capi¬ tal Region and hope fellow grads can attend one of our many planned events this year.

You can ca

XPA at (719) 333-3832, DSN 333-

3832, for initial inquiry but must back up your call with aletter requesting the speaker.

S PA C E C H A P T E R

AFA Society of North Carolina Back by popular demand, the AFA Society

y-inwillt^eplaceinlateOctoberorearlyNo¬

vember. Details will be posted on our web site at www.usafa-nc.com. We have also had adin¬

ner meeting in Raleigh on August 18 and plan another dinner in November. (Pete Bechtel 74, and Glenn Seitchek, ‘83)

were represented and all had agreat time. A

This past year has been atime for learning and building for the Space Chapter, characterized by

Support Your Local

team of ‘66ers took top honors (John Grozier,

some successes and some disappointments. On

Randy Jayne, Steve Conver, and John Maybee).

AOG Chapter/Society

ceived participation kudos as well! We look for¬ ward to next year’s tournament to see if they can

the positive side, our interface with the Academy faculty and staff has been strong, and we have continued to grow as achapter of graduates in¬ terested in supporting space-related activities

defend their title!

and awareness at USAFA. The Academy has

Speaking of fun, planning for our trip to Gettysburg is well underway. We’re shooting for Sept. 13th for this full day event. We vrill provide

shown aclear appreciation for the work of the chapter, and has Iteen eager to work with us. Members have begun to bring their company and personal resources to help strengthen USAFA space awareness, including adonation

19th went off without ahitch. Over 25 classes

In fact, we had three ‘66 teams play, so they re¬

the transportation, lunch, and an expert tour

guide from Industrial College of the Air Force. If you are interested, contact Capt. Craig Rizzo, ’93,

of amodel X-33 by Lockheed Martin, spear¬

at (703) 697-2405. Look for more details in the

headed by Dave Myers. Hughes Space and Com¬

upcoming newsletter and on our web site.

munications has also made models of its satel-

Do you want to know what is happen¬ ing with graduates in your area? Are you interested in establishing ties with the lo¬ cal graduate community and with the Academy? In addition to social activities, many chapters/societies provide mentor services, job-search information, and business networking. Contact your local chapter/society for information on meetings and activities. See “Graduates” on the AOG web page for acomplete list¬ ing: wtvw.aog-usafa.org.

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CHAPTER NEWS

Col. Randall W. Spetman, ‘76, Athletic Director

Falcons Prepared for Tough 2000 Football Schedule By "ftoy Garnhart Sports Information Of ce

The coach was pumped about the weather too. "I can’t think of the

When one looks at the returning lettermen and starters listed for Air Force, one might draw the conclusion that the 2000 campaign could be atough one for the Falcons. But don’t be fooled into that thought. AFA’s total of seven returning starters seem low, probably the lowest in the Mountain West Conference. That’s typical, as the Falcons have always had the lowest or second-lowest number of returning starters, and it hasn’t stopped the squad from racking up 28 wins over the last three seasons which is more than any other MWC school.

last time we had such good weather for spring ball,” DeBerry said. “It was amajor factor because we were able to get some continuity in our workouts.” Here’s alook at the offensive back eld:

At quarterback, AFA returns CIC Mike Thiessen, who started

games last year. Thiessen was tremendous when called upon. He’s the top returning rusher in the MWC vnth a91.1 yards-per-game average. His average was second nationally among quarterbacks in 1999 and he gures to be one of the most exciting players in the conference. He split time during the spring with the baseball team where he was the start¬ ing center elder and the team’s top offensive weapon. Last year, he set aschool record with a33-game hitting streak. C2C Keith Boyea returns from an Academy suspension and will give AFA asolid backup. He was the team’s scout team quarterback ayear ago, as he was able to practice but not play. He has good size at 5-foot-10 and 195 pounds, and is one of the quickest players on the team. C3Cs Bryan Blew and Joe Brazier gure to add depth in abackup role. With Thiessen playing baseball the weekend of the spring game, Boyea took advantage of the opportunity and shined. Boyea hit 14 of 16 passes for 254 yards and apair of touchdowns in the game. Blew tossed for 120 yards and aTD for the Silver team in alosing effort.

Quarterback CIC Mike Thiessen

AFA struggled through an injury- lled season in 1999, posted a6-5 overall record and

nished seventh in the MWC with a2-5 mark. Both

numbers were not typical of Falcon football and will not be expected to be repeated in 2000. Since Fisher DeBerry took over in 1984 as head coach, he’s led the Falcons to a126-69-1 record. The Falcons won three conference cham¬

pionships (1985, 1995, 1998), including the school’s rst outright title in 1998. AFA nished in the top three in the conference 10 times under DeBerry, including two of the last three years. AFA enters the 2000 season as the defending Commander-in-Chief s Trophy champions. AFA has dominated service academy football, post¬ ing 13 CIC tides, compared to just six for Army and ve for Navy. DeBerry

hasledAFAto 11 ofthe 13 titles and has a26-6 mark in CICgames.AFA is 37-19-0 overall while Army is 23-31-1 and Navy is 22-32-1. The Falcons are coming off one of the most successful spring seasons ever. The team was able to get all 15 practices in on the scheduled days and all 15 sessions were outdoors. Spring drills were completed with the annual Blue/ Silver Spring game which AFA had missed four of the last ve years due to weather. “What happened last season was not typical of Falcon football,” head coach Fisher DeBerry said. “I was very pleased with our spring drills and think they will be agood springboard into this season.” 2000 Falcon Football Schedule As of August 1, 2000

Sept. 2Cal State-Northridge at USAFA &Parents Weekend AOG Tailgate Sept. 9BYU at USAFA Sept. 23 USAFA at Utah Sept. 30 USAFA at UNLV

Nov. 18 SDSU at USAFA &Reunion AOG Tailgate

Becker and Nathan Beard. Becker

nished third on the team last sea¬

son with 345 yards rushing and three touchdowns. Beard rushed for 265 yards to lead all reserves and averaged 5.0 yards per carry. The two are interchangeable and should see about the same amount of carries

strength in the fall.

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Air Force has solid depth at halfback with C3C Leotis Palmer, C2C

Tom Heier and CIC Bert Giovanetti. All three saw playing time last sea¬

and starts. C2C Jimmy Burns could factor in as well. Burns received the bulk of the carries during spring drills due to off-season injuries keeping Becker and Beard off the eld. Both are expected back at full

N o v. 11 C S U a t U S A FA

The Falcons gure to get ahealthy Qualario Brovm for his senior year. Brovm played in just three games in 1999 due to shoulder, foot and toe problems. He entered the year as the team’s top returning rusher with 521 yards in 1998. He burned Wake Forest for 166 yards rushing in 1998 and as afreshman torched San Jose State for 158 yards rushing. If healthy, AFA may eld one of the best halfback tandems in school history.

At fullback. Air Force will feature aone-two punch in ClCs Scott

Nov. 4USAFA at Army

most exciting players in the conference.

son and should give the Falcons one of their most talented stables of

O c t . 2 8 U S A FA a t N o t r e D a m e

Halfback CIC Scotty McKay

At halfback, AFA may have as much talent as any. CIC Scotty McKay leads the group. He rushed for 106 yards to help AFA upset Washing¬ ton last season. He was named MWC offensive player of the week vs. Utah for his 99-yard effort. He rushed for 652 yards last season and caught 15 passes for 209 yards to rank among the MWC leaders in all¬ purpose yards. At 5-foot-8 and 175 pounds, McKay will be one of the

players at the position in recent years.

Oct. 7Navy at USAFA &Reunion AOG Tailgate Oct. 14 USAFA at Wyoming Oct. 21 New Mexico at USAFA &Homecoming AOG Tailgate

FA L C O N S P O RT S

By Dave Kellogg

efforts by Rogers and Bonner that set the tone May 19 for the rest of the

Sports Information Of ce Prior to competing in the Mountain West Conference Outdoor Track tmd Field Championships at Brigham Young University May 19, Falcon head coach Ralph Lindeman reminded his athletes it was the last com¬ petition of the season for many, and for some the last in their careers. ‘Make this meet your best ever. That’s all Ican ask of each and everyone of you,” Lindeman said. “If you do that, we have achance to surprise some folks.” His athletes responded by nishing asurprising second in the men’s team standings —their highest championship nish ever, and the women scored 22 points, the most ever in achampionship meet.

meet. Bonner, who suffered asprained knee two weeks before the meet,

won the javelin with athrow of 193-8. Rogers, aprovisional quali er for the NCAA Championships, captured rst in the 3,000-meter steeple¬ chase with aclocking of 9:04.69. “Shane’s victory in the steeplechase was adominating performance,” Lindeman said. “There was nobody

close to him throughout the race. Bonner’s performance was just ‘gutsy’ coming off the knee injury. He inspired his other two teammates (Zach Johnson, nished fourth and Brian Willis nished fth) to earn us 19 points in that event."

In addition to Rogers’ performance, the distance runners carried the day for the Falcons. David Romero placed third in the steeplechase (9:14.70) while Albert Kelly nished sbdh (9:32.00). In the 10,000 meters, Joe Monaco

nished fourth (32.05.96) and Jim Nelson sixth (32.23.41).

Also helping the Falcons’ cause the rst day was aseasonal best by Shawn

Johnson in the shot put with amark of 55-2 for afourth-place nish. Saturday, Air Force, Wyoming and Colorado State were all ghting for second place. Midway through the meet in the men’s standings, the Falcons held just atwo-point lead over the Cowboys for second. “It was aroller coaster day for us,” Lindeman said. “We lost some points in events that I gured we would score better in and picked up points in other events that Ihadn’t counted on. “I just can’t say enough about

the competitive spirit our men’s and women’s team showed. Ithink they drew alittle of their inspiration from what the baseball team was doing by playing the underdog roll in the championship game in Las Vegas.” Collectively, the Falcons had their best conference championship meet in Lindeman’s 11-year tenure as head coach. In addition to

Griswold’s rst-place nish, Jake Gensic nished second in the pole (Continued on next page.)

Kevin Griswold

Brigham Young easily won both the men's and women’s competition. Cougar men scored 286.50 points to win their third consecutive out¬ door title. The Falcons scored 152 points followed by the University of

Wyoming (148), Colorado State University (142.50), the University of

Wrestler and Coach Honored at

National Wrestling Hall of Fame

New Mexico (45) and University of Utah (31). In the women’s competition, Cougar women won their 18th straight

league title with aconvincing 236 point-total. Second place went to the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with 129 followed by Wyoming (121.50), Colorado State (108.50), San Diego State University (80), New Mexico (71), Utah (50) and Air Force (22). Three Falcons won individual titles: Kevin Griswold, Shane Rogers

and Joe Bonner. Griswold won the 400-meters with apersonal best time of 46.43. His time tops his previous best of 46.47 set in 1998 and is sec¬

ond only to Olympian Alonzo Babers on Air Force’s all-time list. The rstclassman from Garden Grove, Calif., followed up in the 200-meters

with athird-place nish in aschool-record time of 20.96, four hun¬

dredths of asecond off the old record of 21.00 set here May 6. Griswold

ended the day anchoring the Falcons’ 1,600-meter relay team for asec¬ ond place nish (3:14.68) to secure second place overall. As good as Griswold’s performance was Saturday, it was the winning

Doolittle Hall Open for Tailgate and other Football Game Activities Doolittle Hall will be open for each home football game and the AOG is currently scheduled to sponsor tailgates at the build¬

ing for four of the six home games. The following weekends in¬ volve tailgates when Doolitde Hall (including the library/lounge) will open four hours before kickoff and remain open for at least two hours after the game:

Wrestling Coach Wayne Baughman

Air Force wrestling coach Wayne Baughman and team member Scott Frohardt were honored at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (Colo¬

rado Chapter) banquet earlier this year. Wayne Baughman was selected as the College Coach of the Year.

Despite having only two seniors on his roster, Baughman led the team

to a7-6 record in dual meets. Including astretch of six consecutive victo¬ ries. He led the team to victories in the AU-Academy Championships and

the Colorado Collegiates, winning coach of the year honors at both events. “Wrestling is really growing in Colorado, and there are some ex¬

cellentcollegiatevn-esdingprograms,soitisanhonortoberecognized,” Baughman said. As adistinguished member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Baughman will represent that institution at the event.

Sept. 2. Parents Weekend (vs Cal State -Northridge) Oct. 7: '60, ‘65, and ‘70 Reunions (vs Navy)

Oct. 21: Homecoming, ‘80 and ‘90 Reunions (vs New Mexico) Nov. ia ‘75 Reunion (vs San Diego State)

If you would like more information on participating in the taiigates, please give the AOG acall at (719) 472-0300. The building (including the library/lounge) will also be open from two hours before kickoff until two hours after the end of the

games on Sept. 9(vs BYU) and Nov. 11 (vs CSU). We welcome everyone to come visit us during the football season and enjoy the various amenities of Doolittle Hall.

Scott Frohardt will receive the award for College Wrestier of the Year. Frohardt nished the season vrith 34-9 record. He captured rst place

at Colorado Collegiates and was voted Most Outstanding Wresder of the tournament. He also captu ewestern regional tournament. Frohardt

nished the season ranked 17th in the nation at the 157-pound weight class and quali ed for the NCAA championships. ‘Frohardt deserves this honor, as he did agreat job all year long,”

Baughman said. “He comes from agreat wresding family, and he has done agreat job for our team.” The banquet honors and recognizes people from Colorado for their lifetime service to the sport of virrestling as weil as those still actively competing and coaching.

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Track Surges to Academy’s Best-Ever Finish

Theissen Named All-American in Baseball

Mike Thiessen (then ajunior, now asenior) was named to the Na¬ tional Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) All-America

third team earlier this year. He is also the starting quarterback for the Falcon football team.

Thiessen becomes the rst Falcon ever honored by the NCBWA and the sixth All-American in AFA history. He is the rst to be selected since Glenn Harris earned third-team honors by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) in 1995.

Thiessen, acenter elder from Johansen High School in Modesto, Ca¬ lif, earned

rst-team all-Mountain West Conference honors as he led

the conference with a.414 batting average and a.515 on-base percent¬ age. He was also named to the all-MWC Tournament team.

Vack; Continued from previous page.) vault with apersonal best of 17-0 3/4. Gensic’s vault is the third best in

school history. Shawn Johnson threw apersonal best of 170-2 for asixthplace nish in the discus. In the 1,500-meters Joe Lopez and Brian Car¬ penter nished third and fourth, respectively. Lopez crossed the nish line at 3:49.90 while Carpenter was less than asecond behind at 3:50.44. The Falcons captured tliird through fth place in the triple jump. Doug Alfar posted apersonal best jump of 47-5 for third, followed by Tony Jones at 47-4 1/4 and Paul Golando at 46-8 1/4. In the high jump, Paul Golando scored aseason best of 6-3 1/2 to

nish

fth.

Mike Thiessen

Thiessen broke a19-year-old school record with a33-game hitting streak that ended early this season. He broke the school records for doubles in aseason (28), hits in aseason (91), at-bats in aseason (220)

and doubles in acareer (59). He also led the team in slugging percent¬ age (.645), stolen bases (16), and total bases (142). The 6-0, 195-pounder was also named to the MWC all-tournament

team as he helped lead the underdog Falcons to the championship game by hitting .400 with ahome run and three doubles in four tour¬

nament games. Thiessen became the rst Falcon in 14 years and just the sixth in school history to post consecutive .400 seasons. He batted .424 and led the conference in hitting as asophomore in 1999. Air Force concluded the 2000 campaign vHth one of the most exciting nishes ever to aFalcon baseball season. The Falcons, the sixth seed in

the six-team double-elimination tournament, placed second in the inaugural MWC tourney. Air Force nished the season with a23-34 overall record and placed second in the conference tournament. Un¬

der rst-year coach Reed Peters, the Falcons posted the most wins and best record in ve years.

1988 Graduate Competes on Military Pentathalon Team Maj. Bruce Hall (USMCR), ‘88 (4th Squadron), competed for the United States in Berlin, Germany, with the Military Pentathalon Team Aug. 1-3. Opening ceremonies were July 30th, and closing ceremonies Aug. 4th.

Rachel Smith

On the women’s side, the coaching staff said they expected as little as 15 points for the entire meet. Instead, the Air Force women scored 15

during the seven women’s nals May 19. Rachel Smith topped the women’s performances with afourth-place nish in the 3,000 meters

with aclocking of 10:03.70. Saturday, Smith and Jaime Flood placed seventh and eighth, respectively, in the 5,000-meters. Smith posted a time of 18:06.54 while Flood posted aseason best mark of 18:36.73.

He competed against all the other NATO countries.HaJl was selected af¬

ter tryouts in San Antonio, Texas, earlier in July. The tryouts involved participants chosen from all branches of the military. The Military Pentathalon consists of alOK run, aland obstacle course, aswimming obstacle course, an orienteering exercise, and ri e/pistol shooting. The Pentathalon started about 25 years ago as a“friendly” competition among the services of the NATO countries and has grovm into an international event.

●Where? The Bear Creek Golf Club (Located at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport) ●When? October 21-24, 2000

●What? Afour-day tournament for friends and graduates of USAFA, USMA, USNA, and USMMA including Sunday play with cadets and midshipmen. Be apart of the only NCAA-sanctioned tournament that provides head-to-head competition be¬ tween the four service academies. The tournament features 36 holes of golf includ¬ ing carts, food, beverages, and awards banquet, good company, and the opportu¬ nity to support the USAFA golf team. ●How much? $300 per player. Get more involved by becoming asponsor. You can get more information, request

abrochure, or sign up for the tournament by visiting our Web site at www.sagc.org. Not on the Web? Phone requests to (214) 756-7628, or mail donations and entry fees to SAGC, P.O. Box 1056, Grapevine, Texas 76099-1056.

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President Presents Commander-in-Chiefs Trophy

From the Sports Information Of ce The Falcon senior football players and coaching staff made their an¬ nual pilgrimage to the White House on May 9to receive the Com¬ mander-in-Chiefs Trophy from President Clinton. The Falcons won their 13th CIC Trophy this past season —11th under head coach Fisher DeBerry. Air Force defeated Navy, 19-14 and Army, 28-0. The 1999 sea¬ son marked the 28th year of CIC Trophy competition between the three

these young men, year in and year out, win athletic success, while rec¬ ognizing it is not the most important part of their lives. They are trained academically; they are trained militarily; they are trained to develop good character and good citizenship, and to be good people and rep¬ resentatives of the United States of America. And still, year in and year out, they play well, they win alot, they play as ateam. And it must be immensely encouraging to every American, as it is to me as Com-

service academies.

mander-in-Chief, to know that they will be representing our country

as an important part of our nationaJ defense in the years ahead. ‘To all of you who have had anything to do with their success, Ithank

you. To all of you who teach at the Air Force Academy, who coach, or who otherwise support these young people who have made such an important commitment to excellence and to service, Ithank you.

“And Iwant to again say Iwon’t be here next year, but Iexpect you will be. Ihope you will remember that Ihave been honored to see the Air Force Academy here seven of these eight years, that you have earned every appearance. And Ihope you will take with you into life the values that brought you to this place today. Thank you very much.”

Reed Peters Named Falcon Head Baseball Coach

-●r

President Clinton prepares to present the Commander-in-Chiefs Tro¬ phy to the 1999 Falcon football team. The Falcons have dominated the series, winning 13 trophy titles com¬ pared to six for Army and ve for Navy. In making the presentation in the White House’s Rose Garden, President Clinton noted the Falcons’

dynasty. Here is the complete transcript of the President’s speech; ‘Thank you. Please be seated. We’re delighted to be joined today by the Deputy Secretary of Defense Rudy de Leon, by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Shelton. You may have seen in the movie that I sunk his battleship, but so far he’s got all his planes. So he’s welcome

Reed Peters, who served as Air Force’s acting baseball coach this sea¬ son, has been named the head baseball coach by the Academy’s Ath¬ letic Director Col. Randall Spetman.

here at the Air Force celebration. General Handy, welcome.

And aspecial word of welcome to the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy, Lt. General Oelstrom, and to Coach Deberry, and to all the members of the Falcons football team, and the other friends of the Air Force who are here today.

‘We are celebrating something that has never happened before. This is the

rst time we will award the Commander-in-Chiefs Trophy to the

Air Force Academy —in the 21st century. ‘In the last century, by my count, there were four great sports dynas¬ Reed Peters

ties. From 1947 to 1958, the Yankees won nine of 12 World Series. Iac¬

tually saw the last few of those, when we got atelevision. From 1957 to

Peters, anative of Denver, Colo., and a1992 graduate of UNLV, led

1969, the Celtics won 11 of 13 titles in the NBA. From 1964 to 1975,

the Falcons to their most wins in ve years. He has guided ayoung Fal-

UCLA won the NCAA basketball championship 10 of 12 times. Now the Falcons have won the Commander-in-Chief sTrophy nine of the last 11 times.

squad to a21-33 overall record this season and second place in the conference championship tournament. Peters served as an assistant c o n

coach with the Fdcons last season, responsible for the team’s hitters

‘You know, Itry to be completely neutral in these things, but the Army

and out elders.

really was hurt that you beat them this year, with abetter ground game.

Peters’ coaching career began at his alma mater, UNLV where he was

“I want to say also, Coach Deberry really knows how to hurt aguy. I

an assistant coach from 1990-94. He was the head coach at Colby Com¬

said, you know, you’ve been here seven of the eight years I’ve been

munity College (Kansas) from 1995-98. He led the Trojans to a123-80 record for a.600 winning percentage. He led the team to aregional

President. He said, ‘That’s right, and Ilook forward to being here next year. I’m not term-limited.’ “And I’m glad you’re not term-limited. We celebrate today, of course,

formally the presentation of the Commander-in-Chiefs Trophy. It is recognition of athletic success. But the truly remarkable thing is that

championship and two regional runner-ups. ‘Coach Peters has done atremendous job during adif cult transi¬

tion period,” said Col. Larry Fariss, the Academy’s director of Athletic

Programs. “He has developed a ne group of cadet athletes and has a bright future with the Air Force baseball program”

This season, the Falcons have made great strides under Peters' tute¬

lage. Air Force had two players named to the all-Mountain West Con¬

ference team and claimed ve conference player of the week awards.

Despite nishing sixth in the conference, the Falcons showed amarked

Cale Bonds, 1999 Falcon quarterback, presents the president with Fal¬ con football jersey #1. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Angela Stafford)

improvement over last season. The team lost seven conference games by two runs or less, the most since 1995. The Falcons also defeated Army and Navy and nished second to Ohio State at the Service Academies Classic early in the season. Air Force claimed at least one victory over every conference team except New Mexico this season. Peters is assisted by Bobby Applegate, Capt. Mike Saks and Capt. Mike Manor. Applegate, the team’s pitching coach, assembled apitching staff that could rank among the best in recent years. With no seniors on the pitching staff and astarting rotation of one junior and two sophomores, the Falcons shattered the single season record for strikeouts and posted the best team ERA in seven years.

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By Col. Richard D. Duckworth, USAF (Ret)

tions and returned to base. Before leaving, however, they dropped sev¬

(Note: Following publication of his article "Fast Movers and Herbicidal Spraying in Southeast Asia," in the Spring 1998 issue of Mr Power His¬ tory [Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 4-15], Col. Richard D. Duckworth, USAF (Ret) discovered new information concerning the last F-4 spraying mission. As an addendum to that article, he presents these ndings.)

eral electronic surveillance devices. These, too, did not pick up any sign of Hess. The young pilot was declared missing in action (MIA) soon afterwards, over the next 10 years was promoted through captain to major. For those next 10 years his MIA status remained unchanged.

At 0855 on March 29,1969, an F-4D (serial #66-8809) of the 366* Tacti¬

cal Fighter Wing (TFW) was shot down just south of Ban Karai Pass near Ban la Boy, Laos. This aircraft was engaged in acombat evaluation of the F-4 as aherbicidal sprayer. The aircraft commander was Capt. W. J. Popendorf; the back-seater was P' Lt. Frederick W. Hess, Jr., ’66.

Then, on May 22, 1979, the USAF declared him to be killed in action,

body not recovered, because no new information had surfaced to sub¬ stantiate that he was alive.

An outstanding student at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Fred Hess graduated in the top 15 percent of his 1966 class. This standing en¬ abled him to attend graduate school before entering pilot training. He chose Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he earned his master’s degree in government in February 1967. While at Georgetown, he met his future wife, aFulbright scholar enrolled in the international law Ph.D. program.

From March 1967 through April 1968, Hess underwent pilot training at Laredo AFB, Texas. Advanced radar training on the F-4 followed at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., then F-4 operational training at MacDill AFB, Fla. On March 20,1969, he reported to the 366* TFW’s 390* Tac¬ tical Fighter Squadron at Da Nang, South Vietnam. Fred Hess had but six missions under his belt when he was lost. He had been in-country just nine days.

In November 1994, aU.S. Joint Task Force-Full Accounting team in¬ vestigated the area where Hess and Popendorf had ejected. Although the team did not visit the crash site itself (the team believed the area Frederick Hess, ‘66

Flying last in athree-plane ight, Popendorf had already made one low pass over the target area. Automatic ground re hit his F-4 on his

second. Upon feeling his aircraft shudder and hearing an explosion, Popendorf began ashallow climb at 500 kias. Suddenly, his ghter be¬ gan to roll rapidly to the left. Despite his efforts to stop it, Popendorf s

plane continued to roll. “Get out! Get out!” Popendorf yelled to Hess, then yanked his own ejection seat handle. This action automatically red Hess’ seat (in case the back-seater had been unable to pull his own ejection handle), followed about asecond later by Popendorf sseat.

Hess’ seat left the plane as it rolled through 45 degrees of right bank; Popendorf ejected as the F-4 came through 60 degrees of left bank. The

ejections had occurred while only about 150 feet above the jungle. Im¬ mediately, the ghter smashed into akarst hillside and exploded. For¬ tunately, Popendorf spartially open chute snagged atree, averting a fatal impact with the ground. Nevertheless, he was in aprecarious po¬ sition. He had suffered serious leg and arm injuries that prevented him from getting out of his chute harness, and he could hear AK-47 ri e re drawing closer.

The F-4 crews in the ight had not seen Popendorf and Hess “punch out” but had called for help. An intense search and rescue (SAR) mis¬

sion, involving 28 aircraft of sfac types, was quickly mounted. Single¬ place A-lHs and multiplace A-IE Sandys kept enemy heads down, as they poured suppressive re into the jungle. CBU-19 riot incapacitat¬ ing gas was also used to successfully extricate the downed airman. Fi¬

nally, just over three hours after he had ejected, apararescueman in an M-24 gas mask and ak jacket reached Popendorf and hoisted him up by sling to ahovering helicopter. Popendorf was very lucky. Sadly, Hess was not. Neither he nor his chute was seen in the air or on the ground. After a10-hour intensive

search -in increasingly murky weather, with darkness approaching, and under continual ground re -the SAR aircraft suspended opera-

Estate Planning Professionals Referral List Available For the past few issues, we have been asking graduates who are pro¬ fessionals in the eld of estate planning to send us their names and resumes. Many have done so and we have compiled alist of lawyers, accountants, nancial planners, and investment advisors across the country. This list is available to anyone who asks for it.

To obtain acopy, e-mail Gary.Howe@usafa.af.mil or call Gary at (719) 472-0300. This list is not an AOG endorsement but is simply alist of graduate professionals. Any graduate may request to be added to the listing.

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wInformation Found on ‘66 Grad’s Final Mission

had the possibility of Agent Orange contamination), they questioned witnesses. The team concluded that although the Laotians cooper¬ ated and allowed the team to travel at wiU, the villagers in the area knew more about any possible remains or personal effects and associated ejection equipment than they were willing to admit. It was believed that someone in the area must have come across some evidence of

Hess’ fate during the intervening 25 years. Nevertheless, the team de¬ termined that without the help of the villagers, it was unlikely that out¬ siders could nd any remains. Thus, Hess' case was placed in the MIA “unaccounted for’’ les where it remains today. Fred Hess was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his nal mission and also received the Purple Heart in 1979, these decorations going to his family. Hess was one of 152 Air Force Academy graduates,

of the classes between 1959 and 1972, who were lost during the Viet¬ nam War. He was also one of the nearly 600 Americans lost in Laos; 444 of these are still listed as missing. Not one American presumably held by the Laotians was released at the end of the war, and none have been released since. United States government negotiators did not deal with Laos, Cambodia, or China for

the release of prisoners and their fates remain unknown. We know that “freedom is never free” and its currency is asacri ce of men and women

in uniform, like Fred Hess. These individuals live and fought heroically then disappeared, but their sacri ces must never be forgotten. (Reprinted with permission from AIR POWER History (Winter 1999.)

AOG Offers USAFA Class Ring Lost and Found Service If you have lost your class ring or found someone else’s, who are you going to call? The AOG has long been the focal point for trying to match lost rings with their owners.

We have several sources for maintaining up-to-date addresses and phone numbers on graduates (the primary source, of course, de¬ pends on the graduate keeping the AOG informed of changes). When aring is returned to the AOG we can usually have it back on the owner’s hand within aweek or two (as soon as we can verify a shipping address).

If aring needs to be replaced or serviced, we can link you to the ring company representative who handles your class. So, if you need to report aring lost or found, or need to know who to call for ring repairs/replacement, please call or contact: JACK MUELLER,‘70,

at (719) 472-0300, DSN 333-2067,

e-mail to classring@aog-usafa.org, 3116 Academy Drive USAF Academy, CO 80840-4475

As the AOG has grown, our activities and ability to ful ll our mission has grown. Many of our activities cross over all elements of the mission. For

example, Doolittle Hall has become an integral part of Academy operations. Inprocessing begins here and some 1,300 appointees and several thousand family members pass through the building in eight hours. The building supports cadets as asite for commis¬ sioning ceremonies and receptions to welcome the graduating class to the community of graduates. For years we have opened Doolittle Hall to parents dur¬ ing graduation and Parents’ Weekend. This year

AOG Support to USAFA Tops $533,000 F o r AY 2 0 0 0 - 2 0 0 1

(Funding approved for AY 00/01 as of 1July 2000) USAFA A r e a

Priority Program

Support

Academics

AFA-01 Character Development &Education

$ 11 , 0 2 5 $19,000

-from CLES endowment

Character Academics Inst. Advance Inst. Advance Character

AFA-02

Academy Character Enrichment Seminars (ACES) $40,000

AFA-03 AFA-04

International Programs Prep School

AFA-05

Summer Scienti c Seminar

$10,000

AFA-06

Cadet Chapel Ministry Program

$ 11 , 0 0 0

Military Military

AFA-07

Cadet Commanders Leadership Planning Period $2,000

AFA-08

Exemplar Program

$17,000

Academics Athletics

A FA - 0 9

Student Services Center

$17,000

AFA-10

Military Military

AFA-11

Metabolic Analysis System Cadet Squadron Improvement Program

$10,500 $5,000

AFA-12

Cadet Clubs

Academics

A FA - 1 3

Guest Speaker Program

$100,000 $40,000

Military

AFA-14

Commandant’s Cadet Enhancement Account

AFA-15

Engineering Programs Character Recognition Programs Academy Assembly

Academics Character Academics

A FA - 1 6 A FA - 1 7

Academics

AFA-18

Character Character

AFA-19

Military Military

AFA-21

Character Subtotal

center during these times. In short, Doolittle Hall pro¬ vides direct support to cadets and the Academy. The AOG produced two CD-ROMs this year to sup¬ port the Academy. One will be used by the Admission Of ce to send to candidates. It will provide avirtual reality tour of USAFA. The second mini-CD-ROM was sent to appointees and parents by the AOG to welcome them to in-processing, acquaint them with what they were about to face and calm some fears. These

projects were paid for by the AOG and given to the Academy. We received rave reviews from parents and appointees on the mini-CD. The AOG also provides funds directiy to the Acad¬ emy to fund projects on the Academy gift needs list. The funding for AY 2000-2001 is shown to the left.

$8,000 $40,000

$7,500

-from Olmsted Foundation

$22,000 $ 6 , 0 0 0

Military History Symposium

$17,000

-from Olmsted Foundation -from Backlund endowment

$ 2 , 5 0 0 $ 1 , 0 0 0 $45,000 $25,000 $5,000 $10,000

National Character &Leadership Symposium Falcon Heritage Forum Commandant’s Leadership Series

Doolittle Hall virill become the of cial information

These funds come from what was formerly the AFA Fund as well as from Sabre Society contributions, en¬

AFA-29

Academic Awards Program Cadet Summer Research Program Cadet Education Special Projects

$10,000

AFA-30

Military Arts &Sciences Speakers Program

$10,000

nual Fund twill also be used to support AOG opera¬

A FA - 3 2

Adventure Based Learning Program

03,0 $533,225 $92,600

tions that support each part of its mission. The AOG is supporting graduates, cadets and the Academy and the AOG is supported by graduates, par¬ ents and friends of the Academy. Today, more than ever before, we need to give back to the institution that has given, and is giving, so much. Support the AOG and the Academy. Give to the AOG Annual Fund.

A FA - 2 2 A FA - 2 7 A FA - 2 8

Military

$30,600 $20,500

dowments maintained by the AOG, corporate and foundation gifts and other special gifts. The AOG Annual Fund will stUl be providing funds directly to the Academy as the AFA Fund did. In fact, we anticipate that the AOG Annual Fund twill be able to provide even more funds than before. The AOG An¬

AFA-20

Academic Academics Academics

Unrestricted Funds for Cadet Activities

Falcon Foundation support for Academy programs

$4,100 $12,000

To t a l

$625,825

Total Academy needs in these areas =$2,873,339. Support for other AOG mission related activities

$ 11 5 , 0 0 0

The AOG also provided other support to the Academy by: ●producing an Admissions recruiting CD-ROM at acost of $50,000 ●offering Doolittle Hall to host -in-processing for the Class of 2004 -commissioning ceremonies for the Class of 2000 -open houses for parents of all classes -receptions for the graduating class ●operating the Bed &Breakfast Program for 360 appointees from the Class of 2004

●publishing Contrails for the Class of 2004

Ways to Give to The AOG and The Air Force Academy Method ‘Cash

Bene ts to Donor ‘Full income tax deduction. Imme¬

‘Gift of appreciated assets

diate impact to AOG/USAFA. ‘Full income tax deduction. Capital

or other property

gains tax savings. Immediate impact t o A O G / U S A FA .

●managing

-avariety of endowment, memorial and other special funds -the class ring and graduation announcement programs

AOG Accepts Memorial Gifts to

‘Bequests (by Will or trust) ‘Gift of life insurance

The Association of Graduates frequently receives unrestricted dona¬ tions, offered in lieu of owers, “in memory” of adeceased graduate. Many families have chosen to remember tbeir loved one at the Acad¬ emy by establishing endowments and scholarships, and by other gifts. Amemorial gift to the Association of Graduates and the Academy is a tting way to honor afriend or loved one while supporting the “extra margin of excellence” which keeps the Academy great. Such agift can also be offered “in honor” of aloved and respected friend or relative while they are alive.

For each gift received in honor or memory of someone, the AOG will send an acknowledgement to the donor and anotice to the individual or next-of-kin that the gift has been made. For additional information, please contact Gary Howe or Chery Flores at (719) 472-0300 or e-mail to Gary.Howe or Chery.Flores @usafa.af.mil.

‘Maximum exibility. Full use of as¬ sets during lifetime. Estate tax savings. ‘Ability to make larger gift with smaller annual (or one-time) cash

outlay. Income tax deduction for cur¬

Honor Deceased Loved Ones

rent value and/or cost of premiums.

‘Gift of personal residence

‘Donor retains use for life. Partial in¬

or farm ‘Gift with life income for

come tax deduction. Estate tax saving. ‘Lifetime income. Income, capital

donor and/or spouse.

gain, estate tax savings.

‘Bequest of IRA or quali ed retirement plan asset ‘Gift of income with assets to heirs.

●Income and estate tax savings. As¬

sets may be taxed at rates as high as 85% at death if passed to bene ciaries. ‘Immediate impact for AOG/ USAFA. Estate tax savings. Increased inheritance for heirs.

For more information and afree booklet on charitable giving

and estate planning, contact the Development Of ce at the AOG, (719) 472-0300 or e-mail: Gary Howe at Gary.Howe@usafa.af.mil.

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AFA Fund Name Changes to AOG Annual Fund Each fall, the AOG launches its annual campaign to raise funds to support its mission of serving graduates, supporting cadets and the Academy and preserving institutional heritage. Fund-raising efforts of the past have tended to emphasize only one portion of this mission.

Thank You To OurAFA Fund Donors (July 1,1999-June 30,2000) FELLOW Level: $2500 -il;4999.f)

1 9 8 5

1963

Maj Mark A. Altobelli ‘85

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs John W. Heide ’63

1991

1964

Capt and Mrs Kevin B. Harmon ’91

Mr and Mrs Harry J. Pearce ’64

Parents &Friends

1966

Mr Robert R. King Capt Robert G. Mack

Col (Ret) and Mrs Joseph P. Sugg ’66 1 9 7 0

Maj (Ret) Dennis F. Funnemark ’70

SPONSOR Level -$100-$499.99

Parents &Friends

1959

Mr and Dr Bhagya Murthy

1961

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Don L. Brooks ’59 Maj (Ret) and Mrs Donald T. Chase ’59 Mr and Mrs Charles A. Kaake, Jr ’59 Mr and Mrs Edward J. Lynch '59 I960 Col (Ret) Andrew W. Biancur ’60

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Michael E. Rawlins ’61

Mr and Mrs Jerry M. Daily ’60

1966

Col (Ret) and Mrs William J. Kornitzer, Jr ’60 Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas R. Lalime ’60 Col (Ret) and Mrs Bruce M. Mosier, USAFR ’60

LEADER Level: $1000 -$2499.99

1959 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas P. Stack ’59

Col (Ret) and Mrs Dale Fowler ’66 1 9 6 8

Mr and Mrs Edward T. Abramek, Jr ’68

Col (Ret) and Mrs John S. Talley ’65 Col (Ret) and Mrs Brian E. Wages ’65 1966

MGen (Ret) and Mrs Jerrold P. Allen ’66 Maj (Ret) George 0. Beds ’66 Mr and Mrs Richard S. Gault ’66

Col (Ret) and Mrs Ronald L. Morey ’66 Col (Ret) and Mrs Joseph M. Narsavage, Jr ’66 196Z Col (Ret) Christian A. Bauer ’67 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Ronald E. Blum ’67 Mr Gerald L. Cockrell ’67

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Robin A. Deturk ’67 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas F. Evans ’67 Dr and Mrs Charles H. Heffron, Jr ’67 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Clinton R. Price ’67

Col (Ret) and Mrs Jeffrey E. Scho eld ’67 BGen (Ret) and Mrs Thomas A. Twomey ’67 Col (Ret) and Mrs Walter L. Visinsky, Jr ’67 Mr and Mrs Theodore L. Willke ’67 1968

1969

1961 Mr and Mrs Frederick E. Bradstreet ’61

Mr and Mrs Christopher J. Hope ’69

Col (Ret) and Mrs Douglas B. Cairns ’61

Dr and Mrs Terry L. Stake, MD '69 1970

Mr and Mrs Dennis D. Dillon ’61

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Ray M. Cole, Jr ’68 Col and Mrs James M. Cryer, USAFR ’68

Mr and Mrs Paul Rossetti ’70

Mr Paul D. Hinton ’61

1 9 7 1

1976

Capt (Ret) Karl F. Kellerman, 111 ’61 Col (Ret) and Mrs John J. Kohout, III ’61 Col (Ret) and Mrs Earl N. O’Rear ’61 Mr Thomas POwens, Jr ’61

Lt Col and Mrs Michael S. Sackley, USAFR ’76

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Terry L. Storm ’61

1977

BGen (Ret) and Mrs William T. Wiliiams, IV '61

Maj and Mrs David C. Nielsen, USAFR ’77

1 9 6 2

1979

Mr and Mrs Logan H. Babin, Jr ’62 Col (Ret) and Mrs John C. Dinsmore ’62

Mr Dan H. Dougherty ’71 Mr and Mrs Lindsay S. Fenwick ’71

Maj and Mrs Frederick A. Lankford, ANG ’79 1986

Maj and Mrs George PFuller, IV ’86 1988

Capt and Mr Laurel A. Wiegand ’88 Parents &Friends

Mr and Mrs Joseph R. Dillon Mr and Mrs David O. Meyn Dr and Mrs John R. Orton Gen and Mrs John S. Samuel

PAT R O N L e v e l : $ 5 0 0 - $ 9 9 9 . 9 9 1 9 5 9

Col (Ret) and Mrs Paul F. Foley ’61

Col (Ret) and Mrs Willie W. Gray, Jr ’62 Maj (Ret) Richard R. Johnson ’62

Col (Ret) and Mrs Gary D. Lentz, MD '62 Col (Ret) and Mrs Robert H. lightsey ’62 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Harry G. Paddon, III ’62

1966 1968

Mr and Mrs Charles L. Lynch ‘68 1969

Mr and Mrs Brian W. Nelson ‘69

Mr and Mrs John M. Fox ’63 Maj (Ret) Henry M. Juister ’63

Col Wayne H. LeFors, USAFR '63 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Relva L. Lilly ’63 Col (Ret) and Mrs Roy B. Marshall, III ’63 Maj (Ret) and Mrs Richard D. Martin ’63

Col (Ret) and Mrs RS. Reynolds, USAFR ’63 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs C. Glen Shaffer, Jr ’63

Mr and Mrs William H. Simpson ’63 Maj (Ret) and Mrs Everett W. Vaughn '63 BGen (Ret) and Mrs Sam W. Westbrook, III ’63 1964

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Randolph W. Royce ‘70

Lt Col (Ret) Camden A. Coberly, II '64

Mr and Mrs John H. Lesher, Jr ’71 Dr and Mrs David N.Markellos, MD ‘71 1973

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Richard J. Karvosky ’73 Mr Robert Pastiak ‘73

Dr George F. Gates, III ’64 Col (Ret) and Mrs Vernon Handel ’64

Gen (Ret) and Mrs Richard E. Hawley ’64 Mr and Mrs Robert F. Keating ’64 Col (Ret) and Mrs Jeffrey A. Levy ’64

1977

Col (Ret) and Mrs William H, Cathey ’65

1929

Maj (Ret) and Mrs Mark A. Leuthold ’79 Lt Col Guy M. Walsh'79 1980

Mr and Mrs Thomas C. Arata ‘80 1 9 8 1

Lt Col Theodore W. Boward, USAFR ‘81

3 2

Mr and Mrs Armistead D. Ihiryear ’69 Mr and Mrs F. J. Quinn, Jr '69

Mr and Mrs Blair Y. Stephenson ’69 Dr and Mrs William C. Thompson, III ’69 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Donald A, Zimmerman ’69 1970

Mr Gary M, Bagliebter ’70 Mr and Mrs Robert T. Chadwick ’70

Col and Mrs Gary A. Corbett, ANG ’70 Dr and Mrs Joseph A. Corsetti ’70

Col (Ret) and Mrs Gary W. Dahlen ’70 Mr and Mrs John DeFilippo ’70 Mr and Mrs Anthony DeSantis ’70 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Robert T. Dessert ’70 Mr Patrick L. Edsell ’70

Maj and Mrs Roger F. Finnern, USAFR ’70

Dr and Mrs Ritchie PGillespie ’70

Mr and Mrs Mark PHale ’70

Mr and Mrs George R. Bonds '65

Lt Col and Mrs Michael A. Stanley ‘77

Mr Dennis T. McCarthy ’69 Mr and Mrs David J. Nielsen ’69

Mr and Mrs Stephen V. Guenard ’70 Mr and Mrs James D. Haas ’70

Col and Mrs Michael L. Heil ’75 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Eric C. Lewallen '75

Mr Peter G. Martinez, Jr ’77

Col and Mrs Charles L. Early, Jr, USAFR ’69

Col (Ret) Harvey Manekofsky ’64 1965

Lt Col and Mrs Alan K. Bodary, USAR ’77

Mr and Mrs John Q. Banbury, II ’69 Dr and Mrs Michael J. Beezley, MD ’69

Mr and Mrs Keith E. Luchtel ’64

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas H. Walsh, Jr '64

19Z5

Mr and Mrs William B. Wood ’68 1969

USAFR ’69

Col (Ret) and Mrs Paul A. Belmont ’64

Mr and Mrs Richard A. Dysart, MD ’71

Maj (Ret) John R. Sullivan ’68 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Donald A. Sutton ’68 Lt Col (Ret) Michael B. Thrower ’68

Mr and Mrs Robert J. Gemignani '69 Col (Ret) and Mrs Richard L. Grandjean, MD ’69 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Gary S. Howe ’69 Lt Col (Ret) David E. Hughes ’69

1970

1971 Mr and Mrs William T. Coleman, III ’71

Col (Ret) and Mrs David M. Phillips ’68

1963

Mr and Mrs David Dougan ’63

Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas R. Shepler, MD ‘66

Maj (Ret) and Mrs Michael L. Lawson ’68 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs David P. Moore ’68 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Michael J. Mueller ’68

Gen (Ret) and Mrs Henry Viccellio, Jr ’62

Mr and Mrs William Dee ’63

Col (Ret) and Mrs Joseph K. Britan ’65 Mr and Mrs James C. Lipham, Jr ‘65

Mr and Mrs John M. Langley ’68

Mr and Mrs James A. Erickson ’69 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Walter E. Garrard, Jr,

M r a n d M r s C h a r l e s D . Ti c e ’ 6 2

1961

1965

Lt Col (Ret) Dale VFranz ’68 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas C. Jensen ’68

Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas J. Black, HI ’69

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Richard E. Tracey ‘59

Col (Ret) and Mrs Hollis A. Thomas, Jr ‘63

Mr Michael A. Ellison ’68

Mr and Mrs Robert L. Taylor '62

Col (Ret) and Mrs Edward T, Boswell ’63 Mr and Mrs Michael F. Bradshaw ’63

1963

Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas E. Davidson ’68

Mr Thomas M. Rentenbach, II ’62 BGen (Ret) and Mrs David H. Roe '62

MGen (Ret) and Mrs Harold W. Todd '59

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Richard M. Coppock '61

Mr and Mrs John D. Batchelor ’68

Mr and Mrs John W. Bonds, Jr ’65 Mr and Mrs Thomas E. Gibbs, Jr ’65

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Timothy J. Graves ’65 Col (Ret) and Mrs Alfred W. Grieshaber, Jr ’65

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Robert L. Hanley ’65 Col (Ret) and Mrs Kenneth E. McAlear ’65 Dr James L. Ough, MD '65 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Marc L. Sabin ’65

Lt Col (Ret) LeRoy B. Schroeder ’65 Col (Ret) and Mrs Harvey W. C. W. Shelton ’65 Lt Gen and Mrs Michael C. Short ’65

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Lewis M, Hatch, IV ’70 Lt Col and Mrs Robert C. Hilb, USAFR ’70 Mr and Mrs Kenneth A. Hudacsko '70

MGen and Mrs Timothy A. Kinnan ’70 Col (Ret) Mark E. Lacaillade ’70 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Dennis A. Leuthauser ’70

Mr and Mrs Roy C, Long, Jr ’70 Col (Ret) and Mrs Darryl V. Lundgren ’70 Col (Ret) Fred T. McGregor, Jr ’70 Col and Mrs George M. Monroe ’70 Dr and Mrs Douglas N. Naversen '70 Mr John H. Pomeroy ’70

Col and Mrs Jeffery A. Quirk ’70

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Howard E. Robson '70 Dr and Mrs Dennis L. Thrasher ’70

Lt Col (Ret) Lewis S. Weiland 70 i 9 n Col (Ret) and Mrs John A. Blind ’71 Mr and Mrs Ronald Cassano '71

Lt Col (Ret) Bruce E. Crimin ’71 Mr and Mrs Jesse W. Curtis, II ’71 Mr Robert G. Cutlip ’71

Mr Gregg H. Ginn ’71 M r a n d M r s M a r t i n F. L e b o u i t z ’ 7 1

Lt Col (Ret) Robert K. Livingston ’71 Mr and Mrs Kenneth D. Lykken ’71 Mr and Mrs William L. Mino ’71

Maj (Ret) and Mrs Karl W. Poulsen ’71 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs William E. Purcell, USAFR ’71

Col and Mrs William M. Rajczak, USAFR ’71 Lt Col (Ret) Larry A. Randlett ’71 Lt Col (Ret) John W. Reho, USAFR ’71 Lt Col John E. Schumick and Ms Jessica L. Kielhorn ’71

Mr Casey J. Scott ’71 Col (Ret) and Maj Willis M. Simmons, Jr ’71 Lt Col and Mrs Lorren Stiles, Jr, USAFR ’71 Col and Mrs James Sweeder ’71 Col (Ret) Lonnie D. Turner ’71 Mr Ronald L. Weilert ’71

Lt Col and Mrs Samuel H. Wilson, USAFR ’71 Mr Mark A. Zablotny ’71 1972

Mr and Mrs Douglas E. Adamson ’72

Mr William R. Davis 76

1985

Dr and Ms Luckey M. Dunn 76 Lt Col and Mrs Keith A. Feigh 76

Maj Benjamin N. Beilis, Jr '85 Mr and Mrs Scott D. Brockway ’85 Maj Mary K. Manning, USAFR ’85 Maj Laureli Mazik '85 Maj (Ret) Jeffrey A. Siegel ’85 Maj and Mrs Jonathan W. Wampler, ANG ’85

Dr and Mrs Richard B. Gosen, MD 76

Mr and Mrs George A. Gutierrez 76 M r a n d M r s T h o m a s W. H a n c o c k 7 6 Mr and Mrs Steven D. Heinz 76

Col and Mrs David T. Nakayama 76 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Craig A. Puz 76 Lt Col James M. Reames, USAFR 76 Col and Mrs John C. Rhoades, Jr 76

1986

Maj and Dr James M, Bonn ’86 Maj Thomas J. Porter eld ’86 Maj and Mrs Frank J. Rossi ’86

Lt Col and Mrs Harry W. Stowers, Jr, USAFR 76 Mr and Mrs Gregory L. Vitalis 76 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Larry A. Weaver 76

Ms Catherine M. Sullivan ’86

Lt Col and Mrs Michael N. Wilson, USAFR 76

Capt and Lt Col Joseph J. Faulise, USAFR ’87 Maj David H, Kaneshiro ’87 Maj Tracey M. Meek ’87 Maj Daniel B. Phillips ’87

1977

Dr and Mrs David K. Ebelke, MD ’77 Dr and Mrs Mark G. Ellis ’77

1987

Mr and Mrs Francis X. Amsler, Jr ’87

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Thomas S. Heck ’77 Lt Col and Mrs John H. Mol ’ll Col and Mrs James A. Neumeister 'll

Mr and Mrs Michael A. Psaromatis ’87

Maj (Ret) Mark D. Schubert ’ll Maj Thomas K. Slattery, USAFR ’ll

M r a n d M r s E z r a G . Va n c e ’ 8 7

Dr and Mrs John F. Swartz, III ’ll Lt Col William C. Taylor ’ll ILt (Ret) and Mrs Edward K, Vornbrock ’ll

Maj and Mrs Timothy S. Taylor ’88 Maj Ancel B. Yarbrough, II ’88

1978

Lt and Mrs Stanley M. Crisp ’78

Capt and Mrs Matthew J. Lloyd ’89 Maj and Mrs William A. Reese '89

Maj Joseph S. Speckhart ’87 Maj and Mrs Victor J. Valdez ’87 1988

1989

Lt Col Patrick R. Daly’78

1990

Mr Thomas A. Brumlik ’ll

Lt Col and Mrs Garry C. Dean, ANG ’78

Capt Troy P. Molendyke ’90

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Andrew T. Caltagirone, USAFR ’72

Lt Col and Mrs Ricardo DiCocco ’78 Mr and Mrs LStephen Fikar ’78

1991

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs David M. Bowman ’72

Lt Col (Ret) James RCerha ’ll Col (Ret) and Mrs Daniel E. Mercier ’ll

Mr and Mrs Michael L. Murphy ’ll Dr and Mrs George C. Nield, IV ’ll Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Edmond L. Ransford, III ’72 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Richard R. Ray ’ll Lt Col and Mrs Peter V.Voorhees, USAFR ’ll BGen and Mrs David A. Wagie ’ll Mr and Mrs David E. Wilkinson ’ll Mr and Mrs K. Frederick Zickrick ’72

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs William C. Hoferer ’78 Lt Col and Mrs Brian F. Johnson '78 Mr and Mrs Mark A. Muttilainen ’78

1992

Lt Col (Ret) Philip T. Popovich ’78

1993

Col and Mrs Marshall L. Wong ’78 1979

Lt Col and Mrs Philip T. MacKey, Jr ’79 Col and Mrs Michael J. Nowak ’79 Mr Patrick D. Tisdale, Jr ’79

Lt Col and Mrs Douglas D. Trogstad, USAFR ’79

1973

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs John M. Bruckner ’73

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Timothy W. Cooper, MD ’73 Mr and Mrs Charles C. Flynn ’73 Dr and Mrs Ralph W. Hinds, III ’ll Lt Col (Ret) George A. Kehias ’73 Dr Dominic L. Mazza, MD ’73

Col and Mrs Jeffrey S. Meints, USAFR ’73 Mr and Mrs Terrell J. Powell ’73 Dr Walter S. Stine, MD ’73

Mr William L. Thompson ’73 1974

Mr and Mrs Neal R. Bierbaum '74 Lt Col Blair L. Bozek ’74

Mr and Mrs Boyd W. Christensen ’74 Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Donald J. Clement ’74 Dr and Mrs Howard W. Frank, Jr ’74 Col and Mrs David L. Fundarek ’74

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Raymond F. Haile ’74 Mr Carlton P. Hairston ’74

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs David S. Hamilton ’74 Mr and Mrs William A. MeSpadden ’74 Lt Col (Ret) Robert K. Morrow, Jr ’74

Maj (Ret) Michael W. Muck ’74 Lt Col James S. Munro, ANG ’74

Lt Col William J. Nugent, USAFR ’74 Col and Mrs Michael W. Restey ’74 Mr and Mrs Colin C, Scheldt ’74 Lt Col (Ret) Ronald D. Walker '74

Lt Col and Mrs Stephen H. Wallingford ’74 1975

Lt Col (Ret) Patrick J. Ash ’75 Lt Col and Mrs Richard K. Bowers, Jr, USAFR ’75 Col John E. Charlton ’75

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs Bruce H. Fritzsche ’75 Lt Col and Mrs John T. Huffman, Jr, USAFR ’75

Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs David W. Johnson, USAFR ’75 Mr and Mrs Stanley E. Jones '75 Dr Thomas L. Knabel, MD ’75

BGen and Mrs Perry L. Lamy ’75 Cdr Jerry L. Manthei ’75 Mr James H. Marburger ’75

Lt Col Ralph Paul, USAFR ’75 Col and Mrs Richard L. Pyatt, USAFR ’75 1976

Mr and Mrs George G. Burnette, III ’76 Mr and Mrs Lindsay W. Butler, III ’76 Col and Mrs Michael B, Byers ’76

Capt Mark A. Burnette ’91 Capt Christopher M. Spigelmire ’91

1980

Col Susan Y. Desjardins ’80 Lt Col and Mrs RDavid D. Hudson ’80

Mr Jeffrey A. Mielke ’80 LCdr and Mrs Donald N. Myers, USCG ’80 Major Keith J. Odegard and Mrs Kathleen L. Odegard ’80 Lt Col and Mrs Mark F. Reidinger ’80 Col and Mrs Walter J. Schell ’80 Col Dave &Ms Holly Svetz ’80 Mr and Mrs Michael T. Valley ’80 Mr and Mrs Lawrence A. Wolf ’80

Dr Lenora Wong-Berning and Mr Kevin A. Berning ’80 1981

Lt Col Richard W. Aldrich ’81 Mr and Mrs Robert G. Bonn ’81 Mr and Mrs Donald A. Ford ’81

Capt and Mrs Matthew C. Ciccarello ’92 Capt Paul A. Alfonso, Jr ’93 Capt David A. Blake ’93 Mr and Capt Jason A. Breeden ’93 Capt Aaron B. Freed ’93 Capt Tuan H. Nguyen ’93 Capt Andrew E. Travnicek and Capt Sandy R. Travnicek '93 1994

Capt and Mr Jacqueline D. Breeden ’94 Capt Kenneth A. Nguyen ’94 Capt Guinevere R. Reynolds ’94 CaptTiti Soo ’94 Capt Michael C. Suermann ’94 1995

Capt David J. Moreland ’95 1996

Capt Michael B. Casey ’96 1 9 9 7

Mr Eric M. Lindberg ’97 1998 ILt Heidi E. Black ’98 Parents Friends

Mr and Mrs William H. Abbott

Lt Col Nancy R. Insprucker &Mr John L. ’81 Maj and Mrs Paul C. Kelly, Jr, USAFR ’81 Ms Amy E. Marker! ’81

M r Te d A l e x a n d e r

Lt Col and Mrs Frederick H. Martin ’81 Lt Col Linda K. McCullers ’81

Mr and Mrs Walter C. Austin Dr and Mrs LC. Baird

Maj Fred E. Mullard ’81 Mr and Mrs Charles E. Phillips, Jr ’81

Mr and Mrs Pliilip R. Bauer Mrs Norma J. Baxter Mr and Mrs Robert M. Beck Mr and Mrs Richard H. Beddow, Jr Mr and Mrs Errol Q. Bond, Sr Mrs Betty R. Boyt Mr and Mrs Daniel D. Bozard Mr and Mrs John R. Bozek Mr and Mrs Don Brocklesby Mr and Mrs Warren Bruckmeier Dr and Mrs Arthur L. Brundage Mr and Mrs Warner J. Bullock

Lt Col Steven R. Searcy ’81 Mr and Mrs Eugene W. Stitt '81 Mr and Mrs Frank R. Worrall ’81 1982

Lt Col and Mrs Edward L. Antoine, Jr ’82

Lt Col Philip A, Bossert, Jr '82 Maj Joseph E. Overbeck ’82

Lt Col and Mrs James M. Ratti ’82 Mr and Mrs Bruce G. Schinelli ’82 Mr and Mrs Richard J. Shimko '82 Lt Col and Mrs David C. West ’82 1983

Mr Thomas M. Benson ’83 Lt Col and Mrs John A. Dorian ’83 Lt Col Linda K. Huggler ’83 Lt Col and Mrs Thomas W. Krise ’83

Mr Stephen H. MacDonald ’83

Maj and Mrs Eric M. Miller, USAFR ’83 Maj and Mrs John D. Zazworsky, Jr ’83 1 9 8 4

Lt Col and Mrs Thomas A. Erchinger ’84 Mr and Mrs Charles S. Gounaud ’84

Dr and Mrs John L. Almeida, Jr Mr and Mrs Vincent Ames

SMSgt and Mrs MV. Cameron Mr and Mrs Martin F. Campbell Mr and Mrs Albert P. Carney Mr and Mrs Willard S. Caudill Mr and Mrs John Charlton Mr and Ms Wendell EChitmon Mr and Mrs Sam Chung

Mr and Mrs Henry F. Clark Mr and Mrs John M. Coyle Col and Mrs AB. Cristiani Mr and Mrs Jack A. Crockford

(Continued on next to last page.)

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RESERVE YOttR PLAGE IN HISTORY

Link yourself forever with the traditions and future of the Air Force Academy by inscribing your name on aPegasus Plaza granite paver. Pavers inscribed with the names of graduates, parents, children, and friends of the Academy will pave the Pegasus Plaza located in front of Doolittle Hall, the alumni house, at the Academy. For your unrestricted tax-deductible donation of $250, apaver with your name or another name you designate will he placed in this prime location for all to see. Funds received will he used to support the Association of Graduates, cadet activities, graduate programs and Academy needs. The $250 donation can he made in alump sum or over one year (monthly, quarterly, etc. in equal payments). Pegasus Plaza pavers make excellent gifts for events such as birthdays, graduation. Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, retirement, Christmas, or other special events. You can also honor or provide amemorial for afriend or relative through this program. Acerti cate will he sent, upon request, for such gifts. /would like to support the Pegasus Paver Project. AOG Account Number

Please send acerti cate suitable for framing to:

Name

Street

City Phone

State:,

.Zip:

City

Home/Work

.State Z i p : ,

Presented By:.

l A M

□Parent □Grandparent □Friend of USAFA |l

□G r a d / Y r

In each block below, ll in the character (letter, number, space or punctuation) to be engraved on your paver(s). There are 13 blanks per line and three lines per paver. (For longer family names, please call or write.) Leave aspace between names, and before and after Minor changes may be required to conform to engraver limitations and standardization procedures. Lines will be centered on the paver. Put information for additional pavers on aseparate sheet of paper. In Memory of Captain

In Honor of

&Thomas

In Loving

Memory of

John Quincy

William Adam

Bancroft

WASmith ‘60

Adams 75

From Family

Bennett Jr And Friends

Margaret

’aver #1

Paver #2

N I J M B F. R O F PAV F. R S :

.at $250.00 each, for atotal of $,

FREQUENCY (circle one): One-Time ONLY Monthly Quarterly Semi-annually (To be paid over amaximum of one year.)

Mail completed form to: Association of Graduates

PAY M E N T O P T I O N S :

_Check enclosed (Payable to AOG) Credit Card

MasterCard

Paid in full

3116 Academy Dr. USAF Academy, CO 80840-4475

.Initial installment

o r FA X t o ( 7 1 9 ) 3 3 3 - 4 1 9 4

.Visa

Iauthorize the Association of Graduates to charge my credit card

Expiration

Number

Signature:.

Date:

My company will match my gift. Enclosed is my company’s form with my portion completed.

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Sabre Society Adds 150 New Members in Six Months On January 1,2000, the Sabre Society counted 401 members. On July 1, 2000, it had 551 members. And the number keeps growing! Why? Because success breeds success...and because of Harry Pearce (’64)! In February, the Sabre Society, led by its chairman, Harry Pearce, vice

New members in the Sabre Society since the last magazine are:

Lt Col &Mrs Frank EAnderson 77

Maj Mary KManning USAFR ‘85

Col &Mrs John MAndrew 76 Lt Col (Ret) &Mrs Mark RBarnett 77 Lt Col (Ret) David LBauer ‘69

Lt Col &Mrs Robert GMans eld

chairman of General Motors, launched amembership drive. Letters

Mr &Mrs Byron Buelow

and telephone calls were made to 450 select graduates who were asked to make apledge to join the Sabre Society for $1,000 annually for at

Lt Col (Ret) &Mrs Thomas EBurke ‘60

least each of the next

ve years.

The campaign was atremendous success with 81 graduates accept¬ ing the full pledge, four graduates donating $1,000 for this year and 36 other graduates making donations of lesser amounts. The campaign raised over $440,000... not including the personal match from Harry.

McDermott

Mr &Mrs Jeffrey Carlson Dr &Mrs Michael Carter Mr &Mrs Estaban Castellanos

Col (Ret) &Mrs Michael JCook '69 Col (Ret) &Mrs Richard OCovey '68

What made the campaign such asuccess was Harry’s personal offer years. Harry presented the Sabre Society with acheck for $81,000 put¬

tingthetotiraisedat$521,000.

And Harry was notyet done. He donated an additional $19,000 to the Sabre Society in memory of Len Kruczynski, ’65, who died this spring from cancer and who was acharter member of the Sabre Society. Many

many thanks to Harry Pearce and to all those who have accepted the call to leading the way in the Sahre Society

2000 Reunion Contacts (As of August 1, 2000) ‘75 (25th) 15-19 November 2000 Col Mark KWells

4174 ECumorah Drive

1670 Ridgeview Circle

Salt Lake City UT 84124-4050

Monument CO 80132

Ph: 801-278-4866 (H)

Lt Col Ralph Paul USAFR ‘75

Mr &Mrs Anthony DeSantis ‘70

Maj (Ret) &Mrs Karl WPoulsen,

Hotel: Radisson: 800-333-3333

ARNG ‘71 Dr &Mrs Eric Reffett ‘77

Mr &Mrs Bary Rietze Mr &Mrs David MRoss Jr

Mr &Mrs Bmce Rostowfski

Mr &Mrs John MFox ‘63 Mr &Mrs John AGaudinski

Mr &Mrs Alberto

Mr &Mrs Robert JGemignani ‘69

Mr &Mrs William SSanders

Mr &Mrs Ronnie Gheesling

Senator &Mrs Michael VSexton

Mr &Mrs Richard Gorman

Mr&MrsRogerASindle ‘68

Mr &Mrs Robert WGranger

Mr &Mrs Bernard FSteenman Mr David PSteinmann

Saavedra-Ferrere ‘73

Col (Ret) &Mrs John BGross ‘65 Mr &Mrs John Houston ‘59 Mr &Mrs John RHundemer ‘59

Mr &Mrs Phillip Stoltenberg Maj (Ret) &Mrs James DTalbert Dr &Mrs Anthony CThompson

Mr &Mrs Billy WJackson

Mr &Mrs Grant Thompson Mr &Mrs Don Tompkins Col (Ret) &Mrs Edward S

Carl &Debbie Janssen '68 (Benefactor)

Capt &Mrs Stephen PJoca

Tooley ‘66

LtCol (Ret) &Mrs Dean HJones ‘61 Mr &Mrs John Jones Lt Col (Ret) &Mrs Edward H

Ms Martha EVidal &Mr Brandon

Josephson ‘59

James BVogler, 111, MD‘73

Benham

Mr &Mrs John Waddell Lt Col (Ret) &Mrs Russell C

Col Michael KKelly‘76 &

Georgiana Beverly Mr &Mrs Michael SKlutz

Walker ‘68

Lt Col &Mrs Michael GKrebsbach

Mr &Mrs Stephen Ward Lt Col (Ret) &Mrs Larry A

USAFR ‘77

Lt Col (Ret) Kenton Lammers ‘62

Weaver ‘76 Mr &Mrs Edward Wilmes

Mr &Mrs Keith ELuchtel ‘64

Lt Col &Mrs Frederick H

Col (Ret) &Mrs DarrylVLundgren ‘70 Ma] &Mrs Dominic Mallamo

Zeitz 111 ‘78

AOG Humanitarian Fund

719-333-3230 (W)

Helps Terminally 111 Grads

E-mail:Rally75@webaccess.net (H) mark.wells@usafa.af.mil (W) Hotel: Wyndham: 800-962-6982

or 719-598-5770

Mr &Mrs Arthur JPedroza Lt Col (Ret) &Mrs Ben Phelps

Mr Eugene AFoster ‘69

Ph: 719-488-1339 (H)

E-mail: ahiancur@aol.com (H)

Ms Karin Newell Mr &Mrs Fred Palmer

&Dr Patricia Lammers

‘60 (40th) 4-8 October 2000 Col (Ret) Andi Biancur

Mr &Mrs Joel GNagy Col (Ret) &Mrs Hector Andres Negroni ‘61

DrJohnKDedic ‘76 (LiteMember) Col (Ret) Steven JDeHaven ‘71 Mr &Mrs Maurice DeLung

Col(Ret) &Mrs Alfred WGrieshaber ‘65

to donate $1,000 for each person who accepted the full pledge for ve

Mr &Mrs Randy Morrison Dr &Mrs Stephen PMuller ‘64

Mr &Mrs Dennis Cuff

Mr &Mrs James MDieter II Dr &Mrs William JDmry ‘73 Mr &Mrs Daniel Durbeck (Correction) Mr &Mrs PatrickWDurick ‘64

Harry Pearce, ‘64 -Above and Beyond!

USAFR

BGen (Ret) &Mrs Robert F

By Mark Anderson, ’61

or 719-260-1800

The AOG Board of Directors has established aHumanitarian Fund

‘65 (35th) 4-8 October 2000 Mr Jim Spinier

655 Big Valley Drive Colorado Springs CO 80919-1002 Ph: 719-598-7228 (H) 719-577-0044 (W)

E-mail: jespittler@aol.com (H)

Hotel:V^dham:800-962-6982 or 719-260-1800

‘80 (20th) 18-22 October 2000 Lt Col Tom Mabry 6668 Gambol Quail Drive E Colorado Springs CO 80918-1317 Ph: 719-333-4172/4237 (W)

for Terminally-ill Members to provide nancial assistance to eligible members who need help with the nancial challenges of aterminal illness such as Lou Gehrig’s disease, cancer and heart disease.

E-mail; tom.mabry@usafa.af.mil (W) Hotel: Holiday Inn -800-962-5470

-How to make arequest: Send awritten request with pertinent in¬

or 719-598-7656

‘70 (30th) 4-8 October 2000 BGen (Ret) Curt Emery 3320 Orion Drive

Colorado Springs CO 80906 Ph: 719-591-3015 (W) E-mail: cemeryl56@aol.com (H) Hotel: Anders Adam’s Mark: 800-444-ADAM or 719-473-5600

‘90 (10th) 18-22 October 2000 Capt Gary Haines 4306D WAntelope Drive USAF Academy CO 80840 Ph: 719-333-7699 (W) E-mail: HainesGAng@aol.com (H)

gary.haines@usafa.af.mil (W) Hotel: Embassy Suites:

Here are the pertinent points: formation on the nature of the illness, assistance needed, and who the AOG can contact for further details to The Humanitarian Fund, Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, USAFA, Colo. 808404475.

-How to contribute: Make your tax-deductible contribution to The AOG Humanitarian Fund at the address above.

It is hoped that this effort to serve our graduates (taking care of our

own) will be well received (and well supported). We’ll keep you posted

on progress. Your Humanitarian Fund committee members are: Larry Freeman: 16422 Ledge Way San Antonio, TX 78232, (H) 210494-4827, (O) 210-494-7803, Fax 210-494-0133, Ib nc @sprintmail.com,

719-599-9100

Transcripts Available

fsw@juno.com.

Graduates who need transcripts from the Academy must request

them by signed letter or fax from :Hq USAFA/DFRR, 2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6D106, U.S. Air Force Academy ,Colo. 80840-6210, Fax: 719-333-6650. For information call 719-333-3970 (commercial) or DSN; 333-3970.

Vic Andrews: 8215 Broughton Court, Colorado Springs, CO 80920, (H) 719-592-1546, (O) 719-533-8107, Fax 719-533-8447, v i c t o r. a n d r e w s @ u s a a . c o m .

Mark Anderson: 8852 Rolling Acres Trail, Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 78015, (H) 830-981-8341, Fax 830-981-8341, marcus@texas.net.

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AT T E N T I O N I N T H E A R E A

(1:®

By Col. Jock C.H. Schwank (USAF, Ret), ‘60 AOG Vice President, Services Check Out the AOG Website

Class Ring Information

The AOG website wwiv.aog-usafa.orghas information on awide va¬

Graduates who need to replace or have their Academy class rings re¬ paired should go directly through the manufacturer. The manufacturer has the expertise and equipment to repair or replace your ring. Contact them directly for cost estimates, which vary signi cantly. Below are the

riety of topics: reunions, merchandise, death notices, discounts, mem¬

ber bene ts, development activities, civilian job programs and agreat deal more. Get the very latest news of interest to you through links to class pages. Academy athletics, local newspapers, and USAFA admis¬ sions.

manufacturers and how to contact them:

Classes of 1960, 1962, 1963,

Jostens

graduates through the annual Register of Graduates. The 2000 edition will be mailed to members of record in November. The biographical information form printed near the center of each magazine should be used on an ongoing basis to update graduate data. Since the individual graduate is the critical source of egisfer information, it is vital that you keep the AOG Informed of address changes, promotions, new jobs, etc. Information updates to be included in the 2000 Register must have been received by 1August 2000. Inappropriate Use of Register Addresses We ate continually concerned about the misuse of graduate addresses listed in the Register for business and political purposes not sanctioned by your AOG. This is directly in violation of AOG policy as well as an infringement of copyright laws as spelled out on the rst page of the 1999 Register.

The AOG requests that members notify the vice president. Informa¬ tion Services, immediately of any non-AOG-sanctioned solicitation they receive where their mailing address was apparently obtained from the Register. The AOG will contact the mailer to ascertain how they obtained your address and take appropriate action.

Graduate-to-Graduate

AOG-mail System In Place The AOG has an e-mail forwarding system that graduates can use to communicate with other graduates. There is no need to know the email address of agraduate to send AOG-mail. The system was preloaded with the home e-mail addresses from the AOG database as of

Sept. 10,1999. Graduates may add, change, or delete their e-mail ad¬

dress from AOG-mail. AOG-maU is accessible through the “Graduates” Link on the AOG Web Main Page. Sending e-mail through AOG-mail is straightforward, but only one class may be searched at atime, and that search may be further limited by graduation squadron or name. There is no automated link between the AOG’s Doolittle Hall data¬

base, which holds both home and work e-mail addresses, and the AOG-

mail database, which holds only one e-mail address; achange to one database will not update the other. Each graduate must update the AOG-mail system and then alert the AOG to change the Doolittle Hall database, and vice versa.

148 East Broadway

1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973,

Owatonna, MN 55060 (800) 852-9353

1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984,

myersm@jostens.com

1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

Balfour Company

Classes of 1959, 1961, 1964,

c/o less Crane 3502 S. Marion St.

1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1994

Englewood, CO 80110 (303) 789-0623 (Evenings: (303) 757-0557) Herff Jones 226 Public Street

Classes of 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1995

Providence,RI 02905 (401)331-1240 ArtCarved

Class of 2000

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Austin, TX 78745 (1-800-531-5131) V i s i t o r s C e n t e r O ff e r s A O G D i s c o u n t

The AOG is pleased to announce amembership bene t. Through the cooperation of the Academy Athletic Association (AFAAA), all AOG members are eligible to receive adiscount on over-the-counter sales at the Academy Visitors Center Gift Shop (which is operated by AFAAA). You only need to show the cashier your AOG membership card to re¬ ceive your 10 percent discount. This discount was previously extended only to active duty and retired military customers. The discount does not apply to mail orders.

Doolittle Hall Available

For Many Special Occasions DooUttle Hall is available at very reasonable rates for special functions. To date the AOG has hosted avariety of events: department meetings, re¬ tirements, wedding receptions, workshops, cocktail parties, luncheons and formal and informal dirmers.

Doolittle Hall can accommodate as many as 300 at asit-dovm dinner and more than 500 for acocktail party. Available facilities include conference rooms, the library lounge with bar, and outdoor patio area, weather permitting. AOG members receive preferential rates. For more speci c information on your special-func¬ tion needs, please call Jean Bickford at the AOG at (719) 472-0300.

Hiring Companies Wanted Service Academy Career Conference (SACQ Dallas/Fort Worth Texas February 8-10,2001 Washington, D.C. May 3-5, 2001 Is your company hiring? Are you looking for well-educated, well-trained, and motivated workers? If so, graduates of the service academies provide the ideal candidate pool. For access to these candidates, participate in one or more of the upcoming Service Academy Career Conferences (SACC). SACCs are scheduled for Dallas/Fort Worth, TX on Feh. 8-10, 2001 (at the Hyatt Regency at DFW Airport) and Washington, D.C. on May 3-5, 2001 (at the Ritz Carlton

Pentagon City inArlington, VA). You will nd service academy graduates are acost-effective source of new employees with exceptional life and work experiences. For more information about the Service Academy Career Conference, call Wayne Taylor at (719) 472-0300 or visit our web site at www.aog-usafa.org<http://www.aog-usafa.org>.

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SACC What is the SACC?

Service Academy

The SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference sup¬

Ceireer Conference

ported by the Associations of Graduates from the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U. S. Military Academy, and Alumni Associations from the U. S. Navd Academy and U. S. Coast Guard Academy. The previous conferences were attended by more than 350 different companies and

September 28-30,2000 Seattle, Washington

5,000 alumni. 5. The schedule for the SACC is:

Where will the SACC be held? The Fall 2000 SACC will be held at the Westin Seattle Ho¬

tel in Seattle, Wash. You may obtain aroom at the Westin for the SACC rate, if available. Call (206) 728-1000 for res¬

ervations and ask for the SACC rate. There are many other hotels available in the area, or think about renewing re¬

lationships with classmates in the area.

Thursday, September 28, 2000 *Interview Prep Seminar at 7p.m.

Friday, September 29,2000

*Registration opens at 9a.m. and continues through¬ out the day.

How to register for the SACC: 1. Ensure your AOG membership is current as this ser¬ vice is offered to members only. 2. Ensure your resume is included in the Joint Service Academies Resume Database System (JSARDS). To en¬

ter your resume, visit our website at www.aog-usafa.org,

*Two open sessions from 10 a.m. to 1p.m. and 3p.m. to 6p.m. In the ballroom, wander from table to table meeting face to face with recruiters from awide vari¬ ety of companies. Saturday, September 30,2000 *Recruiters may schedule individual interviews.

click on “opportunities” and follow the instructions. 3. If you previously submitted your resume to the Joint Service Academies Resume Database System, please use

When attending the SACC, bring several copies of your

the password you received to update and verify the in¬

collected at the conference and may contact candidates

resume to leave with recruiters as they review resumes

formation in the system. Recruiters at previous SACCs

at alater date. Although employment is not guaranteed,

found having electronic access to resumes extremely helpful. Be sure your resume is accurate and complete.

reer opportunities.

the conference offers aunique chance to explore new ca¬

4. The SACC early registration deadline has passed but

walk-in registrations at the door are welcome. On Friday morning. Sept. 29, you will need to sign in, pay the $25 registration fee, and provide acopy of your resume.

If you have any questions on this AOG membership ser¬ vice, please contact Wayne Taylor at (719) 472-0300 or DSN 333-4513.

SACC CANDIDATE REGISTRATION FORM USAFA CLASS:.

NAME (for nametag, no ranks):. ADDRESS :.

(E-mail):,

(Work):.

PHONE (Home):, RESUME CATEGORY:.

(from web site at www.aog-usafa.org/SACC_Registration.htm)

Will you attend the free Interview Prep Seminar?

□Ye s

□N o

Please bring [U Registration Form \Z ]Fee $25 □Resumes (two hard copies) Bring this form along with you to the SACC. :

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SCHOLARSHIP

WINNERS

Graduate Dependent The Graduate Dependent Scholarship Committee has selected 11 dependents as the 2000 receipients for nancial grants through the Graduate Dependent Scholarship Fund. This year’s applicants as usual were rated on the basis of academics, demon¬ strated leadership, jobs, letters of recommendation, two written essays, public service efforts, and extracurricular activities. These

scholars are superb achievers and strong models for this generation of young people. The AOG is proud to assist them as they continue their studies and meet their educational goals. Congratulations.

Michelle Precourt {Col Charles JPrecourt ‘77) is afreshman at Rice university majoring in Natural Sciences and carrying aGPA of 3.8 during her rst semester of college. She is amember of the Rice marching and symphonic bands. Other extracirricular activities include the University’s Pre-Medical Society, representa¬ tive at the Rice High School College Night, and the Deer Park Community Advisory Council (Enviromental/ Health awareness group that meets with local chemical industry leaders to discuss community concerns). Michelle has also participated on apanel that focuses on enviromental clean-up efforts, and includes repre¬ sentatives from Galveston Bay, Clean Rivers, and local chemical companies. One of her professors character¬ ized her as “the perfect student -brilliant,imaginative, independent-minded, ferociously hard working, articulate, and excited by intellectual exchange.” Congratulations Michelle!

Georgene Hilb (U Col VSAFR Robert Hilb ‘70) will graduate from DuPont Manuel Magnet High School in Louisville, KY vnth a4.0 GPA, standing rst in a

Michelle L. Precourt $1350 awarded

class of 465 seniors. Her SAT scores are verbal 760 and math 790. Her accom¬

plishments include National Honor Society, National Merit Finalist, Who’s Who Among American High School Students, and National Science Merit Award. Georgene lettered four years on the Varsity Svnm Team, earning four rst place

medals and three second place medals in the Kentucky State Championships. Her educational goals include adegree in Aeronautical Engineering with along¬ term dream of becoming an astronaut. Congratulations Georgene!

Kathleen Pirog {Col Paul Pirog ‘77) is asophmore at the University of

Georgene M. Hilb $ 11 0 0 a w a r d e d

Illinois, majoring in Bioengineering with a4.0 GPA in her rst three semesters. Kate is astudent in the Campus Honors Program in which

admission is awarded to only 125 of the most highly quali ed of the more than ve thousand entering freshmen each year. Her activities incude being aStudy Center Tutor within the College of Engineering of ce. While in high school she was an apprentice with the Air Force Research Labora¬

tory. She is also amember of the Krannert Center {for the performing arts). Student Assocation, Choir member, and Campus Honors Program

Kathleen A. Pirog $ 11 0 0 a w a r d e d

orientation volunteer. Congratulations Kathleen!

Jennifer Sparks (Mr. Jeffrey Sparks ‘81) is afreshman at Mary Baldwin College where she is astudent in the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. She graduated from high school In two years twith a4.0 GPA (19 honor courses), SAT Verbal 720 and Math 700, and ranked rst in her class of 514 students. Jennifer is

amember of the Mary Baldwin College Senate, Emerging Leaders Program, Student Leadership Initiative Committee, and Program for the Exceptionally Gifted Social Committee. Other activities inciude college choir. College Republicans, Habitat for Humanity, and St Francis Youth Group. Congratula¬

Jennifer Sparks $ 11 0 0 a w a r d e d

tions Jennifer!

Karen M. Feigh {U Col Keith Feigh ‘76) is ajunior at Georgia Tech majoring in Aerospace Engineering and carrying a3.9 GPA. Her leadership accomplishments include Chairperson for the Georgia Tech Women’s leadership Conference, Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Society), Editor of the “T-Book” (Online Student Handbook to orient new students). Secretary of the Sigma Gamma Tau Chapter (National Aerospace Honor Society), Presidents Council Governing Board, and project Coordinator for the Campus Outreach Day. Karen is also aGeorgia Tech President Scholar and has been awarded many scholarships and honors

Karen M. Feigh $950 awarded

during her college career. Congratulations Karen!

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2000 AOG

WINNERS

Awards Scholars

Eric P. Harkleroad (Mr Wendell Harkleroad ‘65) is afreshman at Princeton with a4.0 GPA. He graduated from The Pembroke High School in Kansas City, Mo with a4.0 GPA and SAT verbal 740 and math 730. Eric is an Eagle Scout, member of the university quiz bowl, and works for the Nassau Weekly and the Princeton Tory a.s acolumnist. Though Eric has not declared amajor, his interests include math, economics, and physics. When offered the opportunity to select Advanced Standing and graduate in three and half years, he declined in order to fully explore Princeton’s undergraduate

program before declaring amajor. His professor in “Advaanced Multivariable Calculas” stated he was “the best student in aclass of 110 students. "Congratulations Eric! Aimee C. Sisson (Lt Col Timothy Sisson ‘73) is ajunior at Loyola Marymount majoring in Biochemistry with a4.0 GPA over two and half years. Her activities include Epsilon Delta (Biological Honor Society), Vice President of the University Emergency Medical Services, Sursum Corda( a service organization focused on SAGE, an after-school care center in the Watts area), and Habitat for Humanity activities. During the summer of 1999, Aimee worked as aResearch Assistant in the Department of Pharma¬

Eric Harkleroad $950 awarded

cology and Toxicology at the University of Arizona conducting an inde¬ pendent investigation of the in viteo metabolism of an enviromental estrogen. Congratulations Aimee! Aimee Sisson

Adam M. Eames (Maj Robert Eames ‘73) is asenior at Jefferson Science

$950 awarded

&Technology High School in Alexandria, VA with a3.95 GPAfeleven

advanced program courses and the rest were honors courses), SAT verbal 760 and math 800. Adam is afour letter winner in varsity soccer, and was a member of the BRYC Travel Soccer Team (Captain for two years) which won

the Virginia State Championship for three years. Other school activities include FCA, Key Club, Teenage Republicans, Burke United Methodist Church youth activities, and the National Honor Society. Adam is interested

Adam

in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Congratulations Adam!

$750 awarded

Eames

Meredith P. Harrington (Mr Kent Harrington ‘72) is asenior at Ft Worth County Day Upper School in FT Worth, TX. Meredith ranks second in her class of 92 seniors, with a4.0 GPA (six advanced programs and 15 honors courses), SAT verbal 760 and math 790. She is active in sport and school activities, serving as

class representative to the Student Council. She is the recipient of the English Undergraduate Award given to the junior who exhibits great talent in English. Her volunteer experiences include Dezavala which provides school supplies to underprivileged children. Vacation Bible School teacher, and "Cowtown Brushup” which is acommunity beauti cation project for Ft Worth homes. Her

Meredith Harrington $750 awarded

educational goal is to attend medical school. Congratulations Meredith!

Diane B. Summers (BGen Robert Summers ‘73) is asophomore with a4.0 GPA at Seattle Paci c Univer¬ sity majoring in Nursing. Her college activities include being an Orientation Team Leader, club soccer team, and Special Events and Cadre Coordinator and Advisor for two team leaders. Diane graduated from Colo¬

rado Springs Christian School as the class Valedictorian. Her future educational goal is “a masters in Public Health/Business Administration... astrong foundation from which to reach out and touch the lives of oth¬ ers...” Congratulations Diane!

Diane Summers

$500 awarded

Megan E. Ream (Lt Col Ret Thomas Ream ‘73) is afreshman with a4.0 GPA at Arizona State

University majoring in Physics. On-campus activities include Wesley Foundation Methodist oncampus ministry, Omega Phi Alpha National Service Sorority (Treasurer of pledge class), and the Women’s Rugby Football Club. Her high school academic credentials inclde a4.0 GPA, with several advanced programs and honors courses. Megan ranked fth in ahigh school class of 626 seniors with SAT verbal 770 and math 780. Congratulations Megan!

Megan Ream $500 awarded

ated on an individual basis by the selection committee.

B. The applicant must either be the graduate’s natural child or le¬ gally-adopted child, but need not be nancially dependent upon the graduate or his/her surviving spouse. G. The applicant must agree to enroll as afull-time student, as de¬ ned by the institution, at acollege or university accredited by an appropriate regional or national accrediting body. The applicant’s program of study may be in any eld at either the graduate or undergraduate level.

year and is paid in one lump sum directly to the student upon his/her demonstrated acceptance into the accredited institution. An individual

may receive atotal of four of these annual scholarships, but they do not have to be applied for, or awarded, in consecutive years.

Scholarship award winners, as well as those applicants not selected to receive ascholarship in agiven year, are encouraged to reapply for schol¬ arships in subsequent years. These applicants compete with all new ap¬ plicants for subsequent-year scholarship monies. The number of scholarships to be awarded each year and the dollar

amount of each scholarship is determined annually by the board of di¬ rectors. The scholarship winners will be determined based on overall demonstrated merit. The deadline for receiving application packages is March 1for both initial applications and reapplications. Send requests for applications forms and direct questions on this schol¬ arship program to Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, AOG vice president, Services,

Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO 80840-4475 or call (719) 472-0300. E-mail: services@aog-usafa.org.

AOG MAJOR EVENTS SCHEDULE As of August 15, 2000

D. The applicant must have aminimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the six most-recent semesters as afull-time student.

The scholarship amount can be as high as $2,000 for the academic

ALL CLASSES ARE INVITED TO HOMECOMING 2000 Make your plans now to attend Homecoming 2000, Oct. 20-22, 2000. Another record crowd of alumni is expected to return to the Academy for the celebration to be held in conjunction with the USAFA vs New Mexico football game. Homecoming registration forms were mailed to members of the 20- and 10-year reunion classes in July. Other alumni are heartily encouraged to join these two major reunion classes in the annud return to campus sponsored by the Academy and the Association of Graduates (AOG). Those

2000

September 1-4

Parents Weekend

Cal State-Northridge at USAFA

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Parents Weekend Tailgate &Doolittle Hall Open House Doolittle Hall Open House B Y U a t U S A FA U S A FA a t U t a h

28-30 SACC -Seattle, Wash. 3 0 U S A FA a t U N LV October 4-8

‘60 Reunion (Radisson), ‘65 Reunion (Wyndham), ‘70

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18-22

HOMECOMING

Reunion (Antlers)

-om classes other than ‘80 and ‘90

‘80 Reunion (Holiday Inn) ‘90 Reunion (Embassy Suites)

must contact the AOG of ce to request registration forms. Forms 1 9

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through the AOG. The deadline for registration is Oct. 1,2000. Those attempting to register after this date might well nd most, if not all, events sold out. Send requests for registration forms to:

New Mexico at USAFA &AOG Homecoming Tailgate Sabre Society Function -Notre Dame Area

Association of Graduates (Homecoming)

Sabre Society Function -West Point Area

USAFA at Army

AOG Board Committee Meetings and Board Meeting

C S U a t U S A FA

15-19

‘75 Reunion (Wyndham) SDSU at USAFA &AOG Reunion Tailgate

will not be printed in Checkpoints. All attendees must register

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or e-mail: services@aog-usafa.org

Friday 20 Oct. ‘00 Doolittle Hall 0800-1800 All-Class Registration Cadet Area

0900-1130 Open House

Mitchell Hall 1130-1230 Lunch with Cadets (pre¬ registered grads and guests over 13 years old only/300max) 11 0 0 - 1 3 3 0

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1330-1500 USAFA Brie ngs

Fairchild Hall F-1

1430-1600 Next-of-Kin Coffee

Arnold Hall

1600-1630 Memorial Ceremony

Class Wall

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Saturday21 Oct. ‘00 Doolittle Hall All Class Registration Doolittle Hall All-Class Tailgate USAFA vs. New Mexico

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2001

February 8-10 SACC Dallas, Texas May 3-5

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June 2 8

Inprocessing -Class of 2005, Parents Lunch

Academies Offer Joint

Resume Database System As abene t of membership, your AOG offers aFREE resume registra¬ tion service. We have joined forces tvith the alumni associations of the

Military Academy, the Naval Academy and the Coast Guard Academy to jointly provide online access to resumes of service academy gradu¬

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ates to prospective employers.

Cadet Chapel

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Sunday 22 Oct. ‘00 Catholic &Protestant Services

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ALL CLASS EVENTS

Graduate Dependent Scholarship Criteria Outlined Graduate Dependent Scholarships are being offered for the upcom¬ ing 2001 -2002 academic year. Recipients for these annual awards will be selected by the AOG Board of Directors Selection Committee. This AOG scholarship program is intended to directly support post-sec¬ ondary education for the children of AOG graduate members. To be eligible to apply: A. The applicant must be the child of either agraduate life member of the AOG or agraduate who has maintained annual membership for at least the ve consecutive years immediately preceding the sub¬ mission of the application package. AOG membership requirements for applicants who are children of deceased graduates will be evalu¬

By CIC Dan Smith

cal conditioning time. To eliminate redundancy and prevent the pos¬

1st BCT Commander

sibility of the basic cadets from being overworked, we ensured that the cadet training staff was always aware of the goals and objectives of the

When Iwas asked to write this article, the guidance was to capture a

number of points: what Idid to shape First Basic Cadet Training as the BCT Group commander, my goals for the program, and my assessment of the Class of 2004. Unfortunately, Icannot answer the rst part of this tasking. As all graduates know. First Basic Cadet Training is ateam effort. Over 350 upperclassmen came together as ateam to shape 1,348 civilians into ahighly motivated class of military professionals ready to enter the cadet wing. This article addresses what this team of up¬ perclassmen did to mold the Class of 2004.

athletic staff and visa versa.

Our group athletic of cer, Darius Philips, and our group training of¬ cer, Camille Chigi, did aphenomenal job of sending timely and accu¬

rate guidance to their subordinates. We easily met our objective due to their superior communications and spirit of cooperation. Their hard work resulted in amore rapid increase in the physical development of the basic cadets in morning runs and group physical conditioning than was witnessed in the past. Most impressive was the lower number of

physical tness test failures. On aside note, within the goal of cadre empowerment, squadron athletic of cers were also allowed to plan their squadron’s physical conditioning time within the guidelines Ca¬ det Philips developed. Pretty slick, huh?

From my perspective (and 1am prejudiced on this matter). First BCT was among the best if not the best-run BCT program in USAFA history. The cadre deserves applause across the board. Their quick and appro¬

priate response to all problems and their ability to adjust to kinks in the schedule, that 1was unable to catch kept the program running

smooth as glass. Professionalism was the order of the day, all day, ev¬ eryday. 1, and everyone who was privileged enough to work with the cadre, was impressed with their performance. Their hard work and dedication to the mission made the program, and it was phenomenal. First Basic Cadet Training Commander, Cl CDan Smith, at front cen¬ ter with his staff.

The goals of First Basic Cadet Training have remained the same over the years; instill in the basic cadets the most fundamental military knowledge, improve physical tness, and ingrain the discipline required to become and succeed as acadet. That discipline is most importantly rooted in instantaneous obedience to all orders from superiors, the

personal discipline to see all duties through despite any degree of un¬ pleasantness or discomfort, and to pay tedious attention to detail. All First BCT activities were geared towards these goals and through the

outstanding efforts of the cadre and the solid dedication of the basic cadets, those goals were achieved this year. The Classes of 2001 and 2002 set more speci c objectives within the

goals of First BCT which greatly changed the face of First BCT from years past for the better. The rst and most important objective was to make Basic Cadet Training more professional than in previous years—

we wanted to set ahigher standard for future classes and ourselves. To reach this higher standard, some of the training practices that the upperclassmen experienced as basics and which were judged not ad¬ equately suited for acivilian’s rst introduction to the military were eliminated. Some of the “fun” activities that we remembered from our

As for our impressions of the Class of 2004, we cannot yet tell. We can assess our performance months from now when we see the basics that

we trained, now fourth class cadets, still disciplined, in great shape and

responsible for their military knowledge. If what we taught was inter¬ nalized, then we did our job. Iwill say this. In the three weeks of First BCT Isaw the most profound change in them as aclass; more so even

than last year with the Class of2003 (I worked their First BCT too). They are also one of the most spirited and motivated classes that Ihave seen

in my four years here at USAFA. They are second, of course, to the red up Class of 2001! Their shouts of “2004 Ready for War!” are inspiring to hear and it gives me hope. Hope that they do live up to their claim and that when the time comes, they are indeed ready to defend this nation as Ihope am.

It was an honor and aprivilege to serve as the First Basic Cadet Train¬ ing Group commander. Ithank God rst for blessing me vrith the op¬

portunity and the senior of cers at USAFA for being crazy enough to

trust aguy like me with such abig responsibility. To the graduates from years past who will read this article, Iwant to assure you that everyone here is doing the very best we can to toe the line and uphold the stan¬ dard that you have set for us. Iassure you that it is no short order but we will rise to the challenge, and as long as Ihave anything to say about it, so too will the class of 2004

First BCT experience were cut to make the training environment more consistent at all times. Ibelieve eliminating these training aspects made

asigni cant contribution to the high level of professionalism that we saw during the program and that Istill see in the Class of 2004 now.

Our second objective was to empower the cadre on the ight and squadron levels. Using a“ ex-core” schedule, we allowed First BCT Squadrons to make their own schedules virithin the schedule that we had set forth. Squadron training of cers were responsible for produc¬

ing training plans for their squadrons that t within the overall pro¬ gram schedule. To accomplish this, they gave each ight the power to make training plans that were best suited for the needs of their basics. The result was atraining program speci cally tailored to the strengths and weakness of each ight. Flights that needed more time to improve

drill now had the power to do that. Flights that could not complete a run together could schedule more running time to improve upon that, and ights that were not up to par on their military knowledge could assign more study time. This made the entire program more effective for each basic and more rewarding for the cadre.

The last objective was to ensure cross communication between the BCT athletic staff and the BCT training staff. Since the physical devel¬

TWo ‘80 Grads Set AFirst -Send Son to USAFA

muscular and cardiovascular endurance. At the same time, there is an

Lt. Col. (Ret) Ginny (Caine) Tonneson, ’80, member of the rst class of women to attend the Academy, and Maf. (Ret) Larry Tonneson, '80, sent their son Matt to USAFA with the class of2004. Pictured by the statue of

athletic staff tasked vnth the same goal of improving the physical t¬ ness of the basics through intramuals and scheduled, group-wide physi-

fennie Tonneson. (Photo by Bob McAllister)

opment of the basic cadets is such an integral part of First BCT, much of the training is physically challenging to improve the basic cadets’

Pegasus in front of Doolittle Hall, from left are Larry, Matt, Ginny, and

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1st BCT Commander Reports on Goal Achievement

Study Evidence Shows Support for Honor Systems ByFrederickV.Malmstrom,‘64,

ing and encouraging. First, there was no statistically signi cant trend

Visiting Scholar for Honor, Center for Character Development and James E. West,

whatever in unreported, nonacademic honor violations (r =0.06, p=

.22). The most commonly admitted nonacademic violations were the

Assistant Professor of Economics

We frequently hear from service academy graduates expressing opin¬ ions our academy honor systems have gone to hell. And we can’t blame them for thinking so. Newspapers gleefully headline recent studies showing that both high school honor students and garden variety col¬ lege students believe cheating is amatter of academic survival and an accepted way of life. Few topics on this planet are as sensitive as our service academy honor systems. According to the letters we receive, this perennially hot po¬ tato is in rst place, even ranking over the death penalty and abortion. Everyone has strong opinions, and we’ve yet to nd an academy gradu¬ ate who is neutral on honor. The most common “ x it” graduate rec¬ ommendations to the honor systems are: (1) Don’t touch the systems, (2) Return control of the systems to the cadets/ midshipmen, (3) Re¬ turn to the Good Old Days when expulsion was the only route for vio¬ lators, (4) Scrap the honor systems and hand the whole process over to the lawyers. Alas, most of the of cial “ x its” are reactions to well-publicized honor cheating incidents and lawsuits brought against the academies by

former cadets and midshipmen. Any well-publicized academy honor incident is bound to produce yet another of cial report from aboard of administrators and lawyers. Because lawyers are trained to assign

fault to aparty, the underlying assumption to these reports is nearly always that something is wrongvAXh the honor systems.

Do or Don’t Academy Honor Systems Work? Well, then, is there something wrong with service academy honor systems? Do they or don’t they work? If they don’t work, then have they overworked? Factually, the real answers to these above-mentioned questions are (1) We Don’t Know, and (2) Neither Does Anyone Else. The larvyers who write the lengthy reports in response to honor inci¬

dents may be good at arguing their positions, but these legal experts

unreported academic violations per cadet/midshipman over afour-year span. Most of these self-admitted violations were one-shot question¬ able Incidents, such as improper documentation, inadvertent glancing at aclassmate’s paper, or strongly hinted answers to upcoming quizzes by classmates. We found no historical evidence suggestive of any con¬ tinuing, organized cheating rings. But as any canny statistician toows, given ahuge enough sample size, anything can be shown to be theoreti¬ cally (but not practically) statistically signi cant. This trend is really too close to call, and it could be easily confounded by other factors such as the increase in size of the USMA Corps of Cadets and the USAFA Cadet Wing or —especially —the increasing numbers of entering cadets/mid¬ shipmen who cheated in high school. More studies are needed to either con rm or deny any increases in academic honor violations. Third, (as if to con rm nding #2), there is awhopping upwards trend in the number of cadets/midshipmen who admitted to cheating in high school (r =0.24, p<.0001). Data interpolation comes out to acalcula¬ tion that an early 1960s entering cadet/midshipman admitted to cheat¬ ing in high school about two times in four years. Amid-1990s entering cadet/midshipman admitted to high school cheating about two times per year. Hence there is probably some validity to claims of graduates that the civilian academic world nowadays operates on different ethi¬ cal standards from the academies. The good news is our respondents’ previous high school honor standards don’t seem to affect much their honor standards as cadets/midshipmen. Our economist colleagues might say we have uncovered asort of reverse Gresham’s Law. This

may be arare case where good money drives out bad. Fourth and nally, further support for the honor code/concept lies in the opinions of the academy graduates themselves. When we asked our 941 graduates to place avalue on the concepts they had learned at the academy, honor topped the list. On arating scale of 1(not at all

simply don’t approach these questions scienti cally. We needed data, not opinions. Good law in no way guarantees good science. Therefore, we became understandably quite frustrated at the lack of hard data in these legalistic position papers and decided to launch our

important) to 7(extremely important), graduates made the following

ovm scienti c investigation, collecting rst-hand data directly from

Importance of things learned at the Academy:

service academy graduates themselves. To gather these data we fortu¬

nately found the academies’ Register of Alumni and Register of Gradu¬ ates to be aresearcher’s goldmine. So began our continuing 12-year self-funded research effort, surveying 1,500 randomly-selected acad¬ emy graduates from the USMA, USNA, and USAFA Classes of 1959

through 1998. We asked these anonymous academy graduates numer¬ ous but quite straightforward questions on a7-point rating scale: 1

never

1-3

1-4 occasionally about

times total

2-3 routinely

times every few once times weekly ayear months amonth amonth or dally

The questions included: (1) As acadet/ midshipman, did you ever suspect classmates of violating the code? (2) As acadet/midshipman,

did you ever know of classmates who violated the code? (3) As acadet/ midshipman, did you ever commit either an unreported [a] academic

or [b] nonacademic violation of the code? (5) Did you ever cheat in high school? And, also on asimilar 7-polnt rating scale —ranging from totally negative to totally positive—-we asked: (1) As acadet/ midship¬ man, what was your respect for the honor code/concept? and (2) To¬ day, what is your respect for the academy honor code/concept?

Four Findings, From aStatistician’s Viewpoint We received 941 completed surveys (over 300 from each academy), accounting for aquite respectable response rate of 62%. (By way of comparison, consumer psychology texts rate commercial marketing survey response rates of only 5% as excellent.) Critics could claim the remaining 38% who didn’t respond are the uncounted scoundrels and liars, but that’s arisk one always takes in survey research. In asearch for trends, we subjected all data to linear regression. What

we found for the past 40 years of academy graduates was both surpris-

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traditional use of false ID and violations of limits (i.e. “all rights”). Second, we did nd astatistically but marginally signi cant upwards trend in academic violations of the code/concept over 40 years (r =0.11, p=.03). However, this positive trend is so slight as to amount to 0.17

subjective judgements:

R a n k

Rating

#1.

6.161

Honor

#2 Coping w/ Pressure #3 Self Discipline

6 . 11 0

#4 Leadership

5.948

#5 Con dence

5.867

5.985

#6 Loyalty*

5.598

#7 Cooperation

5.533

#8 Academics #9 Athletics

5.466 4.682

*n=305 only

Forty years of academy graduates give their overwhelming support to continuing the academy honor systems. No doubt this table vidll be apleasant surprise to the commandants, but we also trust this list will not come as adisappointment to either the deans or the directors of athletics.

Where Do We Go From Here?

You probably noticed that we made no attempt to sort out the data by speci c academies during this, the rst phase of investigation. There are, of course, obvious differences between academies’ systems, if only

for the reason that there are different wordings of their code/concepts. The reader is requested to have patience while we collect more data. Second, we aren’t so naive as to believe the honor systems don’t leak. But it’s leaks yes, oods no. If the systems didn’t leak, the honor com¬ mittee would be out of ajob, and so would we. Of course nothing would delight us more. However, at this time we do not foresee that the honor

systems will run themselves. The honor system is de nitely not acase where we forecast an early withering away of the state. (Continued on next page.)

been waiting for this day for along time. It’s very dif cult for me—^not that Idon’t know she’s going to be taken care of. It would be totally differ¬

By Jennifer Brugman

Academy Spirit staff For the fth year in arow, the incoming Academy class began their inprocessing at Doolittle Hall. Some 1,341 appointees received their "packets”, led through numerous “stations”, and made telephone calls courtesy of aphone card provided by USAA. More than 700 relatives and friends stayed for lunch, courtesy of the AOG. The word of the day was “excited.” As the class of 2004 arrived June 29,

ent if she wasn’t sure about it.” "We ask her every day if she’s sure and if she knows how much we’re going to miss her,” John said.

parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends wished the Academy’s new recruits well and said their good-byes. “We’re extremely proud but sad to see her leave," said John White from Auburn, Ala., of his daughter,

Emily. “I’m sure every parent out here has those same feelings of pride." During inprocessing, basic cadets are issued uniforms, get haircuts and inoculations, and are assigned to their squadron. The next day they wake

up early for their rst formation, go to breakfast and start Basic Cadet Training. “I’m excited for her,” said Robin White, Emily’s mother. “She’s

Bed &Breakfast Places 360

Class of 2004 Appointees

The majority of appointees for the Class of 2004 arrived (on the 28th of June for inprocessing on the 29th of June. As in years past, the AOC

in conjunction virith the local Rampart Chapter, provided a“Bed and Breakfast” program for unaccompanied appointees arriving the day before inprocessing with no place to stay.

The AOC had approximately 195 graduate families in the Colorado Springs area volunteer to host these unaccompanied appointees. This year we placed approximately 360 appointees (25 percent of the class). The association’s Appointee Bed &Breakfast program is becoming an Air Force Academy tradition which is unique among service academies and colleges.

Inprocessing started at Doolitde Hall on the 29th of June. As the Class of2004 arrived, parents,relatives and friends wished the Academy’s new appointees well and said their good-byes. The day was hot and the lines long -the AOC with the help of the local Rampart Chapter pro¬

Class of2004 appointees board buses at Doolittle Hall for the short ride to the "Bring Me Men Ramp". (Photo by Bob McAllister) Inprocessing is as much about the incoming cadets and their anticipa¬ tion as it is about the parents letting their children become cadets. “People tell you what’s gonna happen, but you never really know till you’re there,” said basic cadet Jennifer Monson, from Orange County, Calif. “I’m just

praying for alot of change, and getting yelled at alot.” Monson’s mother, Sandy, carried atissue around with her as she walked with Jennifer into Doolittle Hall. “It’s extremely emotional but I’m extremely excited for her,” Sandy said. “She’s always wanted achallenge and this is de nitely a challenge. Ithink she’ll just totally succeed. Ithink she’ll do really well, I’m not nervous about that, it’s just having her leave.”

Jennifer says she’s excited as well. She’s looking forward to the changes ahead and already has aplan for getting through tlie next four years. “I’m just gonna try and make everything look humorous —abig game and try to laugh at it as much as possible,” she said. (TTte Academy SpiritJ

vided water bottles to those waiting in line for inprocessing.

Once the appointees nished their paperwork at Doolittle Hall, they were transported to the cadet area to be issued uniforms, get haircuts, receive inoculations and be assigned to asquadron.

After saying their good-byes, many family members (approximately 700) remained at Doolittle Hall and shared afried chicken lunch that

was provided by USAA. The AOG also appreciated USAA’s providing tele¬ phone calling cards to all the basic cadets. We welcome the Class of2004.

Double or Triple your Gift for Free! Does your employer have amatching gift program?

Contact your Human Resources or Personnel Department to de¬ termine whether you can increase your level of giving through a matching gift. Many companies include their retiree’s gifts in these programs. Pick up amatching gift form, complete your portion and send it to the AOG with your gift every timeyou make acontri¬

bution. It’s an easy way to increase your giving level so that the AOG can give more to the Academy.

Basic Cadet Roberto Flammia gets some “additional training" after

showingupforinprocessinginasetoffatigues.Notawisemove,Roberto! (Photo by Larry Hulst.

AOG Online Merchandise

Site is Operational The AOG online merchandise site was activated on Nov. 11,1999. From

(Honor Study: From previous page.)

the AOG homepage at www.aog-usafa.org <http;//www.aog-usafa.org>,

We are attempting to create acomprehensive honor database, so our effort is only the rst cut in developing acomputer model of the honor systems. Good research always invites more questions than answers, and so it appears this initial study has raised more questions than we originally thought. It also appears this direct approach is going to pro¬ duce alarge, valid database which will both strengthen the honor sys¬

select “Merchandise” from the blue frame on the left. Once in the mer¬

tems —and avoid the many pitfalls of defending them from positions

of mere opinion. We intend to set up for all academies acontinuing data system which future researchers can draw upon 100 years hence. We hope that in doing so, future legalistic investigatory boards will not have to expend their energies on unvaJidated “ x-its.” However, since good science must be value-neutral, we can’t guarantee this project will necessarily produce politically correct ndings or solutions. But it will be based on facts. For the present, we are encouraged by our initial ndings that academy honor systems remain strong as always.

chandise area, you will nd aselection of AOG-unique gift items and clothing as well as alimited number of cadet-issue items. From these pages, you can view and purchase any number of popu¬ lar items. When viewing the merchandise, click on the item name for a

larger image. Once you have completed your shopping, checkout is through asecure server using either your Visa or MasterCard. If you so

desire, you can aiso print out your order form and mail it with your check to the AOG for processing.

Orders will normally be processed within one week of arrival at the AOG. For domestic addresses, you should receive your merchandise within about two weeks of when the order was placed. We hope you

enjoy this new addition to our website. If you experience problems or have suggestions about our store, please send them to store@aogusafa.org <mailto:store@aog-usafa.org>.

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Class of2004 Starts Journey at Doolittle Hall

2000 Marks 20th Anniversary of First Women Graduates By Senior Airman Marijon Clarke Academy Spirit staff

When the class of 1980 graduated, it wasn’t just the friends and fam¬

ily of graduates that cheered —the entire nation celebrated. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Academy’s rst graduating class with w o m e n .

“A lot of women who came here then had already been to college,” said Lt. Col. Anthony Aretz, a1980 Academy graduate. “They really wanted this dream; and most of them wanted to be pilots. Coming here after already going to college was abig sacri ce for them to make.” During the 1970s, the U.S. military took part in changes that would not only change the Armed Forces forever, but also the role women would play in society thereafter. Before President Gerald Ford had passed Public Law 94-106, allowing women to be admitted to the mili¬ tary academies, the Air Force Academy had begun planning acoedu¬ cation concept to ensure acceptance and asuccessful integration. Women were accepted to the Academy in June of 1976. The Academy still provides unique challenges for everyone (regard¬ less of sex, race...). We’re just not as political as we were before. Now we concentrate on the performers, who they are and what they are.”

The Class of 1980 is planning their 20-year reunion Oct. 18-22 this year.

Character Development Center Earns Citizenship Award By Senior Airman Marijon Clarke Academy Spirit staff ACitizenship Award was presented to Col. Mark Hyatt, director of the Center for Character Development, by former President Gerald Ford, April 11 at the College of the Ozarks in southern Missouri. Cadet 1st Class Brent Dishman and Cadet 2nd Class Jason McFeaters joined Hyatt at the “Citizenship Forum” along with students from other col¬ leges and universities.

Lt. Col. Debbie Gray, a1980 graduate, now works in the 34th Training Group. (Photo by Senior Airman Marijon Clarke) In June 1976, 156 women arrived for in-processing. The women’s

ability to keep up vdth the physical demands of basic training helped to smooth that process. Their eight-percent attrition rate surpassed the 10.9 percent rate of men that same year.

‘We weren’t the only group to do this,” said Lt. Col. Debbie Gray, a 1980 graduate. “We just proved that we could do the job, and we did it well. Inever thought it was abig deal whether you’re male or female because the service said if you’re quali ed, then you’re in.” Women had been fully integrated into the cadet wing by the end of

the fourth class year, and bonds had begun to form among them. “I always had good feelings [as acadet],” said Gray, currently the 2nd Group air of cer commanding and 34th Training Group deputy com¬ mander. “When some of us moved from Vandenberg Hdl to Sijan HaU, the guys in our squadron had this reaction like ‘they’re taking our four degrees?’ Iremember they pre-briefed the new squadrons and the at¬ titude was like, ‘you better not mistreat them.’”

“I think the biggest negative thing throughout those four years was all the media,” Aretz said, currently the deputy department head for behavioral sciences and leadership. “They were at all of the big events, and Ithink the women just wanted to be left alone so that they could do what they came here for.” By the time graduation came around, they had made remarkable strides in the Air Force. Women were able to go to navigator and ight training by then and the cadet classes had built bonds that would last alifetime.

‘By then we had become more interdependent, not so much Lone

Rangers anymore,” said Maj. Mary Daley, 1980 graduate and currently 34th Logistics Squadron commander. “We learned about teamwork in

academics and military training. We were much more interpersonal. We had become much more intelligent and gained common sense.” The graduating class of 1980 has made many strides in their c a r e e r s since leaving as second lieutenants. Some realized their goal of be¬ coming pilots -one became the rst female astronaut. “It helps that there is alarger percentage of women teaching here than before,” Aretz said. “They provide great role models for the female cadets and the male cadets too.

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Col. Mark Hyatt and President Gerald Ford met for the second time

when the Academy was awarded the Citizenship award. Ford spoke at Hyatt’s graduation in 1974. “The award was given for the Academy’s emphasis on character de¬ velopment of our cadets,” Hyatt said. “They do more than 25,000 hours

of community service along the Front Range each year. They do every¬ thing from organizing to leading the activities. They do it all, and that’s

how they gain character, by going out and doing community service.” The forum in Missouri focused on citizenship, community service and character development efforts across the nation. They were really impressed v«th the way the Academy emphasizes character develop¬ ment through such things as the core values and mission statements, according to Hyatt. “I think community service is just asmall part of what we do as mili¬ tary members,” Dishman said. “Every day of military service is com¬ munity service, but we are in aunique position as military members to

bene t the communities we are stationed in through community ser¬ vice. This can’t help but bene t the local citizen’s view of the military, and create abond between the civilian and military components of any community.”

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Old Fashion Glasses: Item #7241

73/4 oz.

$4.00 ea./$14.00 set of 4

Item #7243

10 1/4 oz.

$4.00 ea./$14.00 set of 4

Item #7245

12 1/4 oz.

$4.50 ea./$16.00 set of 4

Item #7250

10 1/2 oz.

$4.00 ea./$14.00 set of 4

High Ball: Stemware:

Mugs:

Item #7230

12 oz. Brandy Snifter

$5.00 ea./$18.00 set of 4

Item #7220 Item #7210

73/4 oz. Wine Glass

$5.00 ea./$18.00 set of 4 $5.00 ea./$18.00 set of 4

12 oz. Pilsner Glass

AOG crest on one side; AFA crest on the other side Item #7010

White Ceramic Coffee Mug, 12 oz.

Item #7015

I n s u l a t e d Wa t e r B o t t l e

$6.00 ea. $5.00 ea.

Item #7025

Car Cup

$5.00 ea.

SABERS and PLAQUES The Cadet Saher is sold to GRADUATE AOG MEMBERS ONLY. The

AOG does not sell the mounting case—call for information on where to get the mounting case. Item #4000 Item #6001

Cadet Saber with Scabbard $185.00 Etched Falcon on White Marble (14" x16") $75.00

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COASTERS Item #7095 Pegasus Coasters -Terra Cotta and Blue. Water absorbent, nonscratch bottoms. Set of 4. $25.00

Item #7090 Leather Coasters in atin display case. Set of six. Three with AOG crest and three with USAFA crest. $15.00

L I C E N S E P L AT E F R A M E S “USAF ACADEMY” on the bottom and either “FALCONS" or

"ALUMNI” on the top. Buy one for $4.50 or two for $8.00 (the same or mixed). I t e m # 5 0 0 2 “ FA L C O N S ” L i c e n s e P l a t e F r a m e Item #5003 “ALUMNI” License Plate Frame

P E R S O N A L I Z E D P E N A N D P R E S E N TAT I O N C A S E

Light Maple or Rosewood. Name on pen. Case engraved with your choice of two crests, “AOG”, “US/WA”, or “CLASS” and

up to three lines of personalizing. Please allow 3weeks for engraving. Item #7075 Pen and Case

$24.00

CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

In individual gift boxes. All are solid brass with 24kt gold nish except the ‘99 and ‘98 ornaments which also contain silver toned

nish. Sizes approximate. Limited to stock on hand. (‘93 and ‘96 are sold out) Item #7165 1999 USAFA Crests (Double-sided) (3" x3”) Item #7164 1998 Polaris w/Crossed Sabers (3" x3")

$23.95

Item #7163 1997 Prop &Wings (3" x3")

$24.95 $24.95

Item #7162 1995 Pegasus (3" x3") Item #7161 1994 Falcon (2.5" x2")

$24.95 $24.95

AOG GIFT CATALOG: Prices are current as of May 2000. Prices ,styles and colors are subject to change without notice.

GLASSWARE AOG crest etched on clear glass.

U S A FA S C A R F 100% Silk with USAFA

Crest and Falcon design. Item #1603 DARK BLUE USAFA

$29.50

NECKTIE

80% SUk tie with USAFA And Prop &Wings design Item

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BLUE

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$23.00

GARNET

$23.00

TEWELRY Item #7034 Sterling Silver Prop & $24.50 Wings Necklace. Item#7035 PolarisTieTack/Lapel Pin

14Kt yellow or white gold $44.95 With small diamon

Item #7050 Prop &Wings Charm $74.95 14kt yellow gold With small diamond

$98.95

S W E AT E R S A N D S H I R T S

Item #1610 AOG Rugby Shirt; 100% cotton (10% shrinkage, sizes run true) gray and navy blue with AOG crest embroidered on left breast. $47.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) $50.00 (XXL, XXXL)

Item #1620 AOG Crew Neck Sweater: Jersey top pebble bottom navy blue sweater;

100% pre-shrunk cotton, sizes run one size smaller than normal t; AOG crest embroidered on left breast.

$48.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) $51.00 (XXL)

Item #1630 AOG V-Neck Sweat Top: 85% cotton/15% polyester; oversized to compensate for shrinkage. Color; natural oatmeal (light beige) vnth navy striped trim, AOG crest embroidered on left breast. $46.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG)

Item #1640 AOG Golf Shirt; 100% combed cotton. Color: Cadet Blue or White (Dark blue not shown) AOG crest embroidered on left breast. $38.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) $40.00 (XXL)

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HATS (not shown) AND lACKETS Item #1520 Polar Jacket: Pleece-lined Blue Nylon shell w/embroidered AOG crest. (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) -$70.00. XXL -$72.50. 3X -$74.50. Item #1530 Golf Jacket: White/Teal Poly/Cotton shell, nylon liner,

w/embroidered AOG crest. (MED, LRG, XLG, XXL) -$42.00,

Item #1541 Suede Leather Jacket: Navy Blue/Tan w/embroidered AOG crest. (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) -$120.00. (XXL, XXXL) -$125.00. Item #1550 Blue micro ber windbreaker with embroidered AOG crest on

left breast. (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) -$70.00. XXL -$72.50. 3X -$74.50. Item #1700 AFA Hat w/Class Year; Navy Blue w/embroidered AFA crest

and class year. Please specify class year. Adjustable leather strap for size. $16.00.

Item #1701 AFA Hat (plain); Same as above without class year. $13.00.

CADET ISSUE CLOTHING (Available to AOG Members ONLY) Item #1100 Sweatsuit: 89% Cotton/8% Polyester/3% Rayon; oversize to accommodate shrinkage; light gray with dark gray re ective strips and USAFA. (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) $35.00 (XXL) $37.00 Sweat Top Sweat Pants $22.50 (XXL) $24.50 $55.00 (XXL) $58.00 Complete Set Item #1300 USAFA T-Shirt: 100% cotton (vnU shrink). White with blue Ringer Collar &Sleeves; “USAFA” silkscreened on left breast. $8.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) $9.00 (XXL)

Item #1400 Running Suit Blue/Gray Nylon with re ective strips (sizes run small). (SML, MED, LRG, XLG, XXL)

$47.00 $25.00 $67.00

Running Suit Pants Complete Suit

Running Suit Jacket

BOOKS AND VIDEOS (not shown) ’Paperback Item #3020 -Into the Mouth of the Cat $4.00* The Story of Lance Sijan, ‘65 $27.95 Item #3030 -The Rescue of BAT 21 Autographed by Grad Author Darrel Whitcomb, ‘69

Item #3090 -Raid on Qadda $21.95 Autographed by Grad Author Bob Venkus, ‘63 Item #3120 -Modernism at Mid Century $50.00 History of the architecture at USAFA Item #3130- Courage and Air Warfare $22.00* Autographed by Grad Author Mark Wells, ‘75 Item#3150 -The Secret Life of Waldo FDumbsquat $10.00*

Item #3040 -The Iskra Incident $19.95

Autographed by Grad Author Jimmie Butler, ‘63 Item #3050 -Vietnam: Above the Treetops $24.95 Autographed by Grad Author John Flanagan, ‘62 Item #3060 -Red Lightning, Black Thunder $21.95 Autographed by Grad Author Jimmie Butler, ‘63 Item #3080 -Separated by War $24.95 Autographed by Grad Author Ed Herlik, ‘80

Autographed by Grad Author Don Hall, ‘76 Item #3170 -ACertain Brotherhood $10.00*

Autographed by Grad Author Jimmie Butler, ‘63 Item #7080 -Video: Wild Blue U$10.00

Produced by KUSA -TV Denver; cadet daily life

SPIRIT AND FLIGHT Aphotographic salute to the USAF Academy. Over 150 color photos. Book Sponsored by the AOG. Item #3160 by Elizabeth Gill Lui $60.00

CLASS NOTEBOOKS Two-tone gray suede cover, Jr. legal size (6" x9"), with class crest embossed on front vnth class color stripe; inside note pad and pen; available in limited quantities for the following classes. $10.00 I t e m # 7 11 0 C l a s s o f ‘ 9 1

I t e m # 7 11 3 C l a s s o f ‘ 9 4

I t e m # 7 11 7 C l a s s o f ‘ 9 7

I t e m # 7 111 C l a s s o f ‘ 9 2 I t e m # 7 11 2 C l a s s o f ‘ 9 3

I t e m # 7 11 4 C l a s s o f ‘ 9 5

I t e m # 7 11 8 C l a s s o f ‘ 9 8 I t e m # 7 11 9 C l a s s o f ‘ 9 9

AOG ACCESSORIES AND ADDITTONAT. TTKMS (not pictured) DECALS Class crest on awindow decal (self adhesive to inside of glass). Available for all years except ‘92. Specify class year. Item#43XX Class Decals $1.00

S W E AT E R S B l u e a n d W h i t e 8 0 % O r l o n / 2 0 % W o o l C r e w N e c k S w e a t e r

‘FALCONS” -SML, MED, LRG, XLG (sorry no XXL). Item #1560

Item #7072 AOG Membership Decal $1.00 HONOR MEDALLION A21/2” diameter brass medallion with the Honor

Code on one side and Prop &Wings on the other. Item #7120 Honor Medallion $15.00 Item #7121 Honor Medallion with Stand $35.00

BLAZER PATCHES Pin-back patch embroidered with appropriate crest. Item #1800 AOG Blazer Patch $23.00 Item# 1801 AFA Blazer Patch $23.00

Item #7073 Doolittle Hall Notecards (6” x4.5”) Set of 10

vnth envelopes. $5.00 CHAPEL Item #6003 Painting of world famous USAFA Chapel on wood. Approximately 5.5” tall and 8" wide. $17.00 JEWELRY Item #7030 Sterling Silver AOG Charm $26.00 Item #7031 Sterling Silver AOG Tie Tack

Item #7070 $2.00

FINE ART PRINTS Item #2010 ‘Here’s aToast..."by Keith Ferris $60.00 Item #2020 ‘Gyr/afcon" by Frace $75.00

Item #2030 “Thunderbird" by Rick Broome $50.00 Item #2040 ‘Footfalls’’ AnistPmois $190.00

AOG GIFT CATALOG Prices current as of May 2000. Prices, styles, and colors are subject to change without notice.

$26.00

Item #7032 Prop and Wings. Silver-color Prop and gold-color wings $10.00

KEYCHAIN Blue keychain vHth silver AOG crest.

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President/CEO: Col. (Ret) James A. Shaw

Vice President: Col. (Ret) Chuck Denham

Merchandise Sales: Hilary Moffat

Executive Assistant: Pat Buland

Computer Systems: Jack Mueller

Rental Car Cards: Steve Knight, lohn Rice

Secretary: Leah Burrows Receptionist: Michelle Cowan

Database Coordinator: Don McCarthy

Saber Rental: Hilary Moffat Special Case Golf Reservations: John Rice Web Site: Wayne Taylor

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Career Opportunities: Company Contact: Wayne Taylor Resume Service: Wayne Taylor SACC: Wayne Taylor Class Rings: Jack Mueller

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Checkpoints and Register of Graduates: Advertising: Dick Rauschkolb Chapter News: Tom Kroboth/Bob McAllister

Major Giving: Gary Howe

Matching Gifts: Sandra Luckhurst Memorial/Endowment Funds: Chery Flores

Address Updates: Steve Knight, John Rice Associate Memberships: John Rice Cadet Memberships: Don McCarthy Bio Updates: Steve Knight, John Rice Chapters/Societies: Wayne Taylor Class Reunions: Jock Schwank

Paver Project: Michael Brovm

Grad. Dependent Scholarships: Lani Wing

Planned Giving: Gary Howe

Sabre Society: Jim Shaw, Kathy McCann

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Reservations (parties, etc): Jean Bickford

Label/List Requests: Jock Schwank

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Service Academy Business Resource Directory (SABRD)

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tory category.

This best-seller chronicles the stories of American POWs in Southeast Asia between 1961 and 1973. It is a“must read” for

those interested in that period of our history. Now available through the AOG (Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475) for $38.95 plus shipping (if mailed) and on the AOG Online Merchan¬

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’The monthly payment plan is allowed only if the AOG is authorized to charge on amonthly basis to your AOG credit card or through the coupon payment plan where the AOG is not required to accomplish monthly billing.

Information on graduate joint life membership (graduate married to graduate) and credit card and coupon payment options can be ob¬ tained from the AOG by e-mail at membership@aog-usafa.org or by writing Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, vice president, Services; Association of Graduates; 3116 Academy Drive, U.S. Air Force Academy CO 80840-

4475. Membership forms are available from the AOG or on-line at www.aog-usafa.org.

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By Lt. Col. Dave Kirkham Director, Of ce of International Programs International programs have never been so vital to the Air Force Acad¬ emy, and the continuing support of the Association of Graduates has

never been so vital to the Academy’s international programs. Today’s complex global environment demands Air Force Of cers who can op¬ erate anywhere in the world. As the Air Force implements the “Global Engagement” vision, USAFA has been tasked to prepare global expe¬

ditionary airmen who can meet increasing needs for culturally and lin¬ guistically sophisticated of cers.

Recently, at the Academy’s annual Foreign Area Studies Banquet (sup¬ ported by the AOG), Willard H. Mitchell, Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, recognized USAFA’s substantial con¬ tribution to the global engagement process and reminded cadets that the demand for foreign area and language expertise is only going to increase.

USAFA’s Model United Nations program culminated in 15 cadets from the International Organizations and Global Issues course represent¬ ing South Korea and Brazil at the Georgetovm National CoUegiate Se¬ curity Conference. One of the cadets received honorable mention rec¬ ognition for her role on the simulated international criminal court

panel. The trip included avisit to the U.S. Department of State head¬ quarters building where State Department Country Desk Of cers briefed cadets on South Korea and Brazil.

On April 12 cadets traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in the

Special Session of the Model Organization of American States (MOAS). USAFA’s contingent represented Chile, and, as in past years, earned the respect of all members through outstanding leadership and com¬ petence throughout the event. The group interacted with students from 28 colleges and universities from across the U.S., Argentina and Gua¬

temala. They also enjoyed an audience virith Chile’s ambassador to the OAS. One of the cadets, CIC Luke Tickner, not only served as presi¬ dent of the Model and chairman of the General Committee, but also

served in the same capacity the week prior at the Regular Session of the MOAS held in Edmonton, Canada.

Another 11 cadets participated in the Model Arab League conference at the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley) where they won “Out¬ standing Delegation’’ honors as well as

ve individual awards. C2C

Leah Buckley was elected to chair the regional model next year. The team went on to represent Algeria in the national competition in Wash¬ ington where they earned three individual awards.

Mr. Willard Mitchell, Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for Inter¬ national Affairs, tells cadets the importance of foreign area studies and language pro ciency to today’s Air Force. The Air Force Academy is attempting to rise to this demand. In the past two years at least 10 percent of each graduating class has been foreign language pro cient —thus meeting or exceeding USAFA’s ap¬ portionment of the Chief of Staffs goal that 10 percent of the of cer corps be language pro cient by 2005. The Academy has also initiated aForeign Area Studies program and aseries of international activities designed to support the need for future Foreign Area Of cers and world¬ wide deployable aerospace personnel. The Academy’s Foreign Area Studies major is one of USAFA’s largest academic disciplines. Competition among cadets for participation in international programs is at an all-time high. This past academic year saw more than 85 cadets take part in overseas programs, ranging from semester-long exchanges to the French and German Air Force Acad¬ emies to Summer Language Immersion Programs in Russia, China, Spain, France and Germany, as well as Spring Break visits to Ukraine,

Germany, Turkey, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. With AOG funding

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German and American cadets and of cers mingling at aGerman Air Force Museum.

Cadets also enjoyed the opportunity this year to interact with nearly 400 international visitors to USAFA, including senior military of cers, ambassadors and diplomats, high-level government of cials, and ca¬ dets from almost sixty countries. All of these programs, exchanges and visits draw in some degree sup¬ port from the AOG —some entirely so. In the immediate future AOG

support, one cadet also participated in the National Council on U.S.-

support promises to be even more important. At each CORONA con¬

Arab Relations “Summer in Syria Program”; another delivered apaper

ference Air Force senior leadership reinforces the need for language and foreign area education. In the coming year USAFA’s Of ce of Inter¬ national Programs anticipates expansion of the semester exchange pro¬ grams —the source of the largest payoff in USAFA’s cadet international investment —to include the Chilean, Japanese and Spanish Air Force or National Defense Academies. Requests to send cadets abroad for special programs and to support visiting higb-level delegations are also

at an international cadet conference in Japan, and still four others suc¬

cessfully competed in an International Law of Armed Con ict compe¬ tition in France.

This year AOG sponsorship took cadets to national competitions for ve international “model” courses. Six cadets represented Tanzania at the Model Organization of African Unity (MOAU) conference in Wash¬ ington. Participants had achance to better understand contemporary

African affairs, learn parliamentary procedure, and engage with their counterparts from other universities across the nation. They had a lengthy forum with the Tanzanian ambassador, who answered their

policy questions and provided them with a rsthand perspective of Tanzania’s role in the OAU.

As delegations representing Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg and

Albania, 17 cadets gained experience in alliance building, bargaining and nessing the art of compromise at the Howard University Model NATO conference. The trip to Washington included brie ngs at the German, Danish, and Albanian embassies, where they had the oppor¬ tunity to ask embassy staff members about their states’ foreign policy positions.

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AOG Support Critical for International Programs

at asteady increase.

All in all, USAFA international programs have led to signi cantly en¬ hanced language ability and international awareness of cadets and are making an invaluable contribution to tbe globalization of the future Air Force of cer corps. Without AOG support the USAFA contribution to this end would not be possible.

Send your donation now to The Air Force Academy Fund Association of Graduates

Doolittle Hall, 3116 Academy Drive

Academy Spirit staff

Intercollegiate Record Set

The Academy parachuting team jumped on the competition in the intermediate category at the U.S. National Parachuting Championships

By MSgt Byron T. Dormire, 98th Flying Training Squadron

in Orange, Mass., June 2-11. .:%

The competition featured two sections: the intermediate and open categories. “The cadets did very well,” said Bill Wenger, parachuting team coach. “They pretty well swept the competition.”

●,

Two cadets took part in the competition; Cadets 1st Class Aaron Brown and Matt Hepp placed rst and second respectively in every division.

Brown took rst in style and accuracy. His two scores combined to make him the overall champion. Hepp took much the same route only he placed second in every event. 'With our heavy training schedule, that’s all we could really afford to take there,” Wenger said. “They couldn't do any better. We basically

won every event in every category.

‘We have avery strong senior team, our juniors are new and we’ll see how they develop. We’re pretty positive about repeating our showing last year as national champions but you never know ‘till the last jumper’s on the ground.” The cadets weren’t the only ones who did well at the meet. Three Academy staff members also competed. Marty Jones placed sixth in the open category and Coach Wenger fourth in accuracy in the open division. His strong showing earned Wenger aspot on the U.S. Sky¬ diving Team. Wenger, ve other men and six women will represent the United States at the International Skydiving Competition in Ja¬ pan in October.

Flying Team Garners Trophy, Places 5th in Canadian Meet By Jennifer Brugman

Academy Spirit staff The Academy ying team traveled to Canada earlier this year to take

rst place in the Birchall Cup International Air Skills Competition. They also attended the national ying competition in May and placed fth. At the Canadian competition. Cadet 1st Class Ryan Pelkola and Cadet 2nd Class Kevin Dormer won the PhUlips-Colarossi Cup for Best Team.

The Kenny Trophy for Best Pilot also went to Pelkola. Dormer also won the title of Best Navigator.

Social Award, for the best-combined results of pool, darts, and foosbaU tournaments went to Cadets 2nd Class Andrew Gilmer and Andrew

Rollins. Birchall Cup Competition was held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The competition involved basic air maneuvers and naviga¬ tional skills as well as aground simulator, according to Maj. Bruce McNaughton, ying team coordinator. At the National Intercollegiate Flying Association National Competi¬

The Academy parachute team took rst piace at U.S. National com¬ petition in June. (Courtesy photo)

Earlier in the year, the Wings of Blue set anational collegiate record when 36 launched from 16,500 feet to create the “weed wacker” forma¬

tion. The record was set during spring training, an annual intercolle¬

giate event held at Gila Bend, Ariz. The squadron also set its best team record for most jumps accomplished for the seven-day event with 3,255 jumps. These accomplishments happened in the midst of daily train¬ ing for the more than 70 cadets performing jumpmaster and instruc¬ tor upgrades, four-way formation training, style and accuracy compe¬ tition training, and show jump demonstration practices.

Wings of Blue has been one of the outstanding parachute units in the country during the past two decades. Since 1967, cadets have domi¬ nated national intercollegiate parachuting championships, typically winning decisively over the other 40 schools. Additionally, they per¬ form about 30 demonstrations each year.

tion, the Academy ranked fth in the nation in ight events and eighth for ground events. Pelkola took ninth in the Top Pilot competition and second in short- eld landing.

Recent graduate, Chris Finan took 10th in Top Pilot and third in Naviga¬ tion. Rounding out the winning points was Cadet 1st Class David Paulus with aseventh place win in Simulator. “Our goal is to win nationals and we believe we have the talent and the equipment to do it,” McNaughton said. “The cadets’ time is guarded pretty closely by the Academy. Give us more time with the cadets and Ithink they could do much better."

Normally, the team spends aweek at each competition to learn the

ight conditions. However, this year’s nationals coincided with Acad¬ emy nals week and many of the ight team had to compete with little or no practice in the conditions.

19th Military Symposium Announced The USAFA Department

H i f . l TA RV

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of History announces the 19th Military History Sym¬

posium, “The American Prisoner of War Experi¬ ence,” which will be held at the Air Force Academy Nov.

14-16, 2000. For more information see

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or contact the symposium director. Dr. John Jennings,

2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite

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AMlilUCAN

8540. Fax: (719) 333-2970. E-mail: 19MHS@usafa.af

EXPERIOCE

AOG Gets New Look

Dave Pfeil and Jake Jacobs work on remodeling the assembly area of

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Doolittle Hall

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By Jennifer Brugman

Parachute Team Continues Its Winning Ways

The new Air Force second lieutenants will report to avariety of as¬ signments, including 550 to pilot training and ve to navigator train¬

ing. Several graduates will attend medical school or graduate school with special scholarships. Other graduates will go immediately to nonrated assignments Air Force-wide. In addition, three graduates ac¬ cepted commissions in the U.S. Army, one ivill enter the U.S. Navy and

two will enter the U.S. Mtu'ine Corps. Ninety- ve cadets earned academic distinction, 95 earned military distinction, and 95 earned athletic distinction.

Class of 2000 graduates who go to pilot training will carry a10-year active-duty service commitment. Those who attend navigator train¬ ing will have asix-year active-duty service commitment, and aU oth¬ ers will have a ve-year active-duty service commitment. To date, 284 Academy graduates have been promoted to general of¬ cer rank, including Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael E. Ryan, Class of 1965, and Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. John RDallager, Class of 1969.

The Class of2000faces the Cadet Wing during the graduation parade, prepared for their new Air Force careers.

Southwest Airline Graduate Pilots

Support AOG Humanitarian Fund By Rod Jones, ‘71

Secretary of the Air Force

Is 42nd Graduation Speaker Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters became the 42nd speaker in the history of the Academy to deliver the commencement. As Secretary of the Air Force, Peters is responsible for ensuring the Air Force can meet its current and future missions. He oversees the re¬

This past year the USAF Academy’s Association of Graduates (AOG) approved the Humanitarian Fund for terminally ill members. It pro¬ vides nancial assistance to eligible members facing the nancial chal¬ lenges of aterminal iliness such as Lou Gehrig’s disease, cancer, or heart disease. Simply stated, the fund assists graduates who have aterminal illness and are facing nancial hardship. The importance of this fund was highlighted recently when it provided funds to agraduate with Amyo¬ trophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) to purchase amuch-needed wheelchair.

cruiting, training and equipping of the 365,000 men and women on Air Force active duty, 180,000 members of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve, and 165,000 civilians of the total force. Peters is fur¬

ther responsible for planning, justifying and allocating the service’s annual budget of approximately $71 billion. Peters has been the Air Force’s secretary since August 1999. Prior to being appointed to his current position, Secretary Peters was the undersecretary of the Air Force and acting secretary of the Air Force. Peters served as aReserve of cer in the U.S. Navy from 1969 to 1972. He obtained adoctor of law, magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1976. (Compiled by Academy Spirit staff)

20th Squadron Wins AFA Foundation

Scholarship and Leadership Trophy The Air Force Academy Foundation, which sponsors the Scholarship

Rod Jones presents $15,000 to AOG Board Chairman Marcus Anderson

and Leadership Trophy presented at the Organizational Awards Parade

on behalf of USAFA graduate pilots at Southwest Airlines. The funds

during graduation activities, held their annual meeting at The Carlton

will support the AOG’s Humanitarian Fund.

House on May 31.

Frank Schmuck, '88, and Idecided to grow this worthy fund by doing a fundraiser. We solicited donations from Southwest Airlines pilots who were USAFA graduates. We set agoal of raising $10,000 for the initial seed money to this worthy cause. After all, we are the LUV airline! We thought airline pilots would be an ideal group to start t e funding as it would represent truly sel ess giving. Most airline pilots are covered by health insurance, long-term disability or loss of license insurance, and are currendy in good health. The probability of them using these funds is marginal, yet we have been given the education and training to obtain agreat career. Some of our fellow graduates have not been as fortunate. It took us ve months to raise the funds. By cross-referencing our seniority list and the AOG’s database, we discovered we have 328 gradu¬ ates working at SWA, or 10 percent of the pilot force. Southwest’s cor¬ porate giving policies do not allow it to contribute to these types of funds, but SWA President and CEO, Herb Kelleher, was so impressed by the generosity of his pilots that he made apersonal contribution that brought our total to $15,000. Thank you Herb! Once again the Southwest Airlines pilot group is out in front. We hope this giving wUi inspire graduate pilot groups at other major carriers to

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Tough Twenty Trolls win the Air Force Academy Foundation’s Scholar¬ ship and Leadership Trophy.

This year’s trophy winners, the Tough Twenty Trolls of Squadron 20 (pictured with Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters) were guests of honor at the luncheon. USAFA graduates who are members of the Foundation are: Howell Estes, ‘65; Ron Fogleman, ‘63; Brad Hosmer, ‘59; John Olive, ‘67; Dave Palenchar, ‘70; Mike Quinlan, ‘61; Dick Schlosberg, ‘65; and Paul Stein, ‘66.

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Class of 2000 Begins Air Force Careers The ranks of Air Force Academy alumni grew to more than 33,202 on May 28 with the graduation of 928 members of the Class of 2000. This year’s class is the 42nd to be graduated since 1959. It is also the 20th anniversary of women graduating from the Academy.

undertake similar efforts. Thanks to all who contributed. Iam indeed

proud to say Iam apilot at Southwest TUrlines. Graduates who would

like alisting of graduates at Southwest can email Frank Schmuck: 71663.720@compuserve.com or yours truly: jones36@compuserve.com.

By Bob Smith ’61 Staff Writer, Mojave Desert News

EDWARDS AFB, Calif. -Angie Wallace, a ight test engineer assigned to the 410th Flight Test Squadron here, has been named as one of three Air Force junior of cers to win an Olmsted Foundation Scholarship. The scholarship pays for two years study in aforeign university.

Despite being conversant in German (her mother was born in Ger¬ many) ,Wallace will be attending the University of Lyon in France to study

Political Science and International Relations. The scholarship provides

for six to eight months of language training at the Defense Foreign Lan¬ guage Institute in Monterey, Calif, before going overseas. Wallace, a1991 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, was one of ten

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Air Force of cers who were nominated for the award. The criteria for

nomination is quite strict, involving high grades during college, demon¬ strated leadership skills on active duty and exceptional language skills. Wallace has been in the Antelope Valley since 1995 when she attended the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards. She was subsequently as¬

signed as F-117 Special Project Flight Commander with aduty station at Plant 42 at Palmdale Airport.

Winning the scholarship will bring signi cant changes in Wallace’s career plans. The daughter of an Air Force ghter pilot who served tours in Vietnam ying F-lOO and F-4 aircraft, she wanted to be apilot. Her 5

foot 2inch height, however, is two inches below USAF minimums and she entered the service as an aeronautical engineer.

Her slight stature does not prevent her from ying since as a ight

Captain Angela Wallace, 410th Flight Test Squadron, climbs into the cockpit of aBlock 30F-16 at the F-16 Combined Test Force where she often exercises her skills as a ight test engineer in providing guid¬ ance for completion of various ight test projects. (Photo by Bob Smith) Although Wallace originally wanted to make engineering her career eld, she now aspires, once her overseas study is complete, to teach r e a r

aeronautics and French at the Air Force Academy and then use her

newly learned skills in Air Force assignments such as amilitary attache or in the Pentagon.

test engineer she is one of the group which designs test ights, and

The Olmsted Scholarship was founded by Major General George

Senator Strom Thurmond

saw during his service in China during World War II that U.S. military of cers quite often had no training or acquaintance with foreign cul¬

quite often gets to go along to direct test ight operationsOlmsted and his wife, Carol. Olmsted, a1922 graduate of West Point, tures.

He and his wife established the foundation which provides three

Wins Thomas D. White Award U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond received the Academy’s 38th annual Thomas D. White National Defense Award in early May in Washington,

D.C. Lt. Gen. Tad Oelstrom, former Academy superintendent, presented the award to Thurmond during anoon luncheon in the Rayburn House

Of ce Building. The award is named for Gen. Thomas Dresser White,

who served as the fourth U.S. Air Force chief of staff from 1957 to 1961.

scholarshipseachtoArmy,AirForceandNavyof cerseachyear.There

have been 310 scholars to date who have studied in 26 languages at

107 different foreign universities in 39 different countries.

Wallace was to depart Edwards in July for language training, then travel to France in April for three months immersion in French culture before starting classes in the Fall of 2001. The classes will be totally in French and scholars are encouraged to immerse themselves in the lo¬ cal communities rather than be the “visiting American”. (Printed with

permission of the Mojave Desert News, California City, Calif.

Classes of1960 and 1967 First to Complete Class Paver Projects

Senator Strom Thurmond is congratulated by cadets. (Photo by Staff

‘

Sgt. Angela Stafford)

Established by theAcademy in 1962, the award recognizes anAmericitizen who is judged to have made signi cant contributions to the

c a n

national defense and security of the United States. Their contributions

maybeinany eldofendeavor,suchasscience,technology,leadership, management, national affairs, international affairs or acombination.

Thurmond, anative of Edge eld, S.C., was elected to the U.S. Senate

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i InMay2000,theClassesof1960and1967becamethe rsttwoclasses

by write-in vote in 1954. The 97-year-old Thurman is South Carolina’s

to complete class paver projects. Pavers are inscribed with the names

the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Chairman of the Senate Armed

bronze plaque. Set in aseparate area adjacent to the Pegasus statue,

senior senator and the senior member of the U.S. Senate. He serves as

ofeachgraduatedmemberoftheclassanddedicatedbyaspecial

Services Committee, and is the ranking member of the committee on

this striking display honors all members of the class.

the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Com¬

1960 and 1967 who made this possible. Formal dedications will take

petition.

ThepermanentT.D.WhiteplaqueisdisplayedintheAcademy’sArnold

Hall, with names of all annual winners. Past winners include retired Army

Gen. Colin Powell (1999), former President George Bush (1994), former

President Ronald Reagan (1989), former Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1978) and Bob Hope (1977). (Compiled by Academy Spirit staff)

Thankyoutotheof cersandcommitteemembersoftheClassesof

place at the respective reunions in 2000 and 2002

Support Your Academy! Donate Now to the AOG Annual Fund.

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'91 Graduate Earns Scholarship to Study in France

A S S O C I AT I O N O F G R A D U AT E S The Association of Graduates (AOG) of the US Air Force Academy is anonpro t, self-supporting corporation located in Doolittle Hall on the Academy grounds. The association was established to

serve and support the Academy, graduates, and cadets. Examples of current programs, services and membership bene ts are: AOG MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

A O G S U P P O R T T O G R A D U AT E S ★

★Historical record keeping ★Chapter support

articles of interest

★Civilian employment opportunities program

★

Register of Graduates published each November which lists names, addresses and biographical data on all graduates Service Academies Business Resource Directory Joint academies publication which lists gradu¬ ate members’ civilian positions. Useful for networking and obtaining services.

★

Discounts on airline travel

★

Discounts on rental cars and motels

★

Eligibility for exceptional credit card and line of credit programs

★

D i s c o u n t a t U S A FA V i s i t o r ’ s C e n t e r

★

Use of Doolittle Hall for receptions, meetings,

focusing on networks of graduates +

★Locator Services

★Class reunion and homecoming activities ★Management of class funds

★Graduate education scholarships ★Jabara Airmanship Award ★Humanitarian

Fund

★USAFA golf course reservations for those not

otherwise eligible -i-

★Cadet sabres: rentals and sales +

★Scholarships for graduate dependents -i★Class ring heritage ★War ★

Four issues of Checkpoints annually with class notes, news of USAFA, alumni affairs and

★Graduate memorialization

parties and ceremonies

Memorial ★

“AOG-mail” e-mail program

★On-line AOG gift shopping

Wide array of unique gifts for sale, including cadet issue clothing

+AOG graduate membership bene t GKADlIATts

ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES

(719) 472-0300 FAX: (719) 333-4194

3 11 6 A C A D E M Y D R I V E

USAF ACADEMY, CO 80840-4475

E-mail: aog@aog-usafa.org Web: www.aog-usafa.org

AOG SUPPORT TO CADETS

Over $2,500,000.00 for the Extra Margin of Excellence

★Academy lecture series

★Air Force Academy Assembly

★Military History Symposium ★Department speaker program ★How-to-study program ★Academy Press ★Brick and mortar projects ★Class ring procurement ★Women in Air Force display ★Cadet emergency fund ★Falcon Mascot: Aurora

★Special Olympics

★ ★ ★

Cadet clubs and teams

Sailplanes for cadet soaring program Aircraft for cadet ying team Survival Training displays

Cadet squadron improvement projects Mitchell Hall furnishings

★

Cadet excellence awards

★

Honor Committee awards

★

Cadet Commanders Leadership Enrichment

★

Cadet activities: Blue Bards, Chorale, Drum

Seminars

and Bugle Corps and Wings of Blue Revised: January 2000

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Association of Graduates Available Member Bene ts/Services AOG of ces are open Monday through Friday, 0730-1630 Mountain Time. For all of ces, telephone: (719) 472-0300 (DSN: 333-2067/2073). E-mail: aog@aog-usafa.org.

T R AV E L S E R V I C E :

●year-round full-service travel program for va¬ cation, business, special Academy events and re¬

CHECKPOINTS MAGAZINE;

●your quarterly link to friends, classmates and

unions. Call ABetter Way Travel Service at 1(800)

the Academy.

347-9002 and mention your AOG af liation.

R E G I S T E R O E G R A D U AT E S :

REUNION/HOMECOMINGS;

●annual presentation of biographical informa¬ tion on all Academy graduates.

●coordination and planning by your AOG. MERCHANDISE/MEMORABILIA;

E-MAIL:

●Academy/AOG-unique items created espe¬ cially for members.

●AOG-mail forwarding system for gradu¬ ates. Accessible through the “Graduates”

A U T O M O B I L E P U R C H A S E D I S C O U N T:

link on the AOG web main page.

●2% over factory invoice on new Pontiacs and GMC trucks and receive all applicable factory re¬ bates. Drop-shipping available. Contact the Com¬ mercial Sales Division, Ferguson Pontiac-GMC

CHAPTERS:

●world-wide support for some 29 chapters DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS:

●outstanding yields from MBNA. 1-800-9006653, extension 6617 L I N E O F C R E D I T:

●save 10-25% at the Radisson Inn North (for¬

merly Sheraton Inn North) just outside the USAFA South Gate. Call (719) 598-5770 and ask for the Association of Graduates rate (excludes spe¬

cial or group events...discount depends on time of year and room availability). You must present your AOG membership card on check-in. ●save 50% at the W^dham Colorado Springs when traveling in January, March, April and Oc¬

tober,November,andDecember,cil(800)962-

6982 and askfor the AOGVIP Rate (excludes group,

Truck (719) 596-5005/ (800) 782-0826/ fax (719)

special events and promotional rates). Discount based on rack rates and subject to availability. Must present AOG membership card upon

596-7569

check-in.

C A R R E N TA L D I S C O U N T S ;

●unsecured line of credit is available from

●special 10% discount rate from Budget: (800)

MBNA America. To apply call 1-888-500-6266 and ask for priority code J2ON-F1-603-2G. You will re¬

455-2848 (AOG ID T507 400). You must present

your AOG-provided Budget card when picking up

ceive adecision in as little as 15 minutes.

y o u r c a r. HOTEL DISCOUNTS;

AOG CREDIT CARD:

●favorable terms and credit limits from MBNA

●save 10% at participating Clarion, Comfort, Econo Lodge, Rodeway, Friendship, Quality and Sleep Inns, Hotels, Resorts -(800) 4-CHOlCE. (Ask

America. To apply call 1-800-523-7666 and refer to source code J8CJ. SCHOLARSHIPS;

for the travelers discount for AFA AOG members, ID #000041511).

●apreparatory school scholarship via the Fal¬ con Foundation.

●15% savings atWoodfm Suites- (800) 237-8811 ●an approximate 20% saving at the Embassy Suites Hotel of Colorado Springs. Call (719) 599-

●post secondary scholarships to graduates’ children. L O C AT O R S E R V I C E ;

9100 and ask for the AOG RSVIP Corporate Rate (ex¬

●need to nd afellow graduate? We help!

cludes special and group events). You must present your AOG membetship card at check-in.

S A B E R R E N TA L :

●sets of six for the military wedding.

●save 50% at the Sumner Suites of Colorado

Springs when traveling January through April and November/December. Call (719) 265-9385

and ask for the AOG Special Rate (not valid for groups, special events or with any other pro¬ motion). Discount based on regular rate and

is subject to availability. AOG membership card required upon check-in. ●save 25% at the Las Vegas Hawthorn Suites during June, July and August. This is anongam¬ ing hotel just steps from many major casinos. Call (702) 739-7000 and ask for the AOG VIP rate. Discount based on rack rates and subject

to availability. Must present AOG membership card upon check-in.

Rules Outlined for Graduate Golf Course Use

Corporate Members Association of Graduates, USAFA Air Academy Federal Credit Union Air Academy National Bank

Through the efforts of the Association of Graduates (AOG) and the Directorate of Development and Alumni Programs, the following pro¬ cedures have been arranged for graduates wishing to play golf at the

Air Force Association

Ampex Corporation Betac Corporation The Boeing Company Budget Rent aCar Corporation Van Gilder Insurance Corp.

Academy’s Eisenhower Golf Course.

MUitary members, active duty and retired, including Guard and Re¬ serve, (i.e. any graduate with amilitary ID) must schedule their ovm

tee times by calling (719) 333-3456, 72 hours in advance.These are the

reservation rules applicable to all active-duty personnel not sta¬ tioned at the Academy and retirees. Green fees are $18.00. Reciprocal s a m e

Continental Electronics

(Division of Varian Associates, Inc.) Electronic Data Systems Corporation

privileges are in effect for active-duty graduates who have annual

memberships at other Air Force courses. Golf cart fees are $18. Nonretlred, Nonactive-Duty Graduate AOG members: The AOG is allocated eight tee times per month. Nonretired graduate AOG mem¬ bers who are no longer on active duty may play at these special times. Tee times begin after 1000 hours. Graduates wishing to use these tee times must make reservations through John Rice at the AOG. He will

Embassy Suites Hotel of Colorado Springs General Dynamics Corporation Jostens, Inc. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

The MITRE Corporation Motorola, Inc.

contact the golf course to schedule your desired date and time. After

Government Electronics Group Northwestern Preparatory School

con rmation of the tee time, he will notify you of the date and time. We

emphasizethatthesegraduatesmustgothroughtheAOGof ceforres¬

PRC, Inc. Rockwell International

ervations (719) 472-0300.

Graduates may schedule only one tee time per month to insure all eligible graduates have an opportunity to use one of the eight tee times.

Sumner Suites of Colorado Springs TRW, Inc., Electronic &Defense Sector

If by the 25th of each month the eight tee times have not been reserved, agraduate who played earlier in the month may schedule asecond tee

United Parcel Service United Services Automobile Association

time. Green fees for nonretired, nonactive-dufy graduates are $50 and golf cart fees are $18.

United Technologies Corporation USAF Academy Athletic Association Walsworth Publishing of Colorado Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Reunions and Homecoming: Atournament will be scheduled by the

Academy and the AOG to accommodate graduates at aset fee for all players. The fee will be independent of military status or golf course

Defense &Electronic Center

membership.

Wyndham Colorado Springs Hotel Corporate memberships are being offered for $2,000 for the life of the corporation. With the exception of voting and holding of ce, corporate members enjoy all privileges of regular members. For more information write to Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, vice presidenty Services, Association

Send your donation now to The Air Force Academy Fund Association of Graduates

of Graduates, 3116 Academy Dr., U.S. Air Force Academy CO 808404475. Phone (719) 472-0300. E-mail services(o)aog-usafa.org.

Doolittle Hall, 3116 Academy Drive U.S. Air Force Academy, CO 80840-4475

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rom July 20 -22, 2000, some 180

F Sabre Society members returned to the Academy

the Commandant’s house in Pine Valley. Saturday began with breakfast at Doolittle Hall and brie ngs

unaware of the rigors of modern training and intended to tell other old grads that they were wrong. “It is as tough today as it ever was”. The weekend ended with a gala dinner at Doolittle Hall attended by Sabre Society members and Academy senior staff. The Air Force Band of the Rockies Wild Blue Country group provided entertain¬ ment. The weekend allowed the Academy and the AOG to show appreciation for all that the Sabre Society has done for the Academy. It allowed participants to meet, watch and talk with cadets and see current training. Thanks to all who attended and thanks to the Academy for its tremen¬ dous support.

by the Commandant followed by atour of basic training on scene in Jack’s Valley. Participants were

Sabre Society members! Look forward to regional dinners

for great fun and great updates on the Academy and its cadets. Attendees enjoyed golf on the Blue and Silver courses at the Eisenhower Golf course

and areception at the Academy Club on Thursday evening. Friday brought brie ngs from the Superintendent (newly arrived Lt Gen JD Dallager ‘69 ), the Dean, the Director of Atheletics, and the

Director of Admissions followed by areception at

taken to BCT and had lunch with the basic cadets.

at West Point and Notre Dame. You should have received

They also visited the Global Engagement site

your reservation forms. If not, call Kathy McCann at

where the third class cadets are trained in modern

(719) 472-0300.

bare-base mobility operations. This was an inspiring day and the “old” grads who, of course, always think they had it tougher changed their thinking. Brock Storm (‘59) said that he had been

Sabre Society non-members! You can join today by calling Kathy, Gary Howe or Jim Shaw at (719) 472-0300 and asking for aSabre Society membership packet

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CLASS NEWS

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II JEFFERSON, Kent and Fredda MONTAVON, and Mike and Marion REARDON. We

P e t e To d d

1250 Big Valley Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80919-1015 Home: (719) 531-5874

alternately bored the ladies and grossed them out with war stories and rude jokes. Nothing seems to have changed over the years except the subject matter (e.g., health care instead of high-g turns).

FA X : ( 7 1 9 ) 5 3 1 - 6 6 9 7

E-mail: petetodd@aol.com Percent members: 83

Most of you will already have heard that Dave PHILLIPS narrowly averted join¬ ing the Cardiac Club last spring. He began having symptoms in San Francisco and, when he showed up at the hospital, they scheduled an immediate quadruple bypass. The docs said he had been a"ticking time bomb.” He's reportedly well on the road to complete recovery. Attaboy, Dave. The other good news on the Phillips front is that Phyllis Kern experienced a moment of weakness and has agreed to marry Dave! Best wishes from the Class to both of them. The wedding might already have taken place by the time you read these words. (Or not: Dave doesn’t write often.)

Jim REED noti ed me via ProudPapa.com that one Lawrence Scott Reed (’84) has been selected for lieutenant colonel. He subtly (and very modesdy) raised the

question whether any other ‘59er offspring had reached that exalted rank. He also speculated how long before we’ll have acadet who Is agrandchild of a‘59er. It makes my heart hurt to think about that one. Jim CARPENTER dropped anote to let me know he and Doris toured China last

October. They also cruised to Antarctica in February and he said it actually wasn’t too cold and the seas were smooth. This makes me conclude that they fell for the age-old Antarctica Cruise Flim Flam in which the boat owner takes your money,

sails by the Falklands and tells you you’ve been to McMurdo Sound. Only experi¬ enced travelers who take along their own sextant (or GPS receiver) can beat that

The well-fedcompanyat the Johnson's. Not shown:]imConrmlly, duty photographer. Short Subjects:

Acovert source has provided the accompanying photo of Jimmie JAY after he was forcibly ejected from aBritish Karaoke Pub for singing all 27 verses of the Air Force Song,

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Jim says that Doris is enjoying retirement and he is trying to consult less and retire more. Volunteer, group and travel activities keep them fully occupied, not to mention seven grandchildren scattered across the country. In the absence of further bulletins from classmates, you will now be treated to an abbreviated travelogue of the Todds’ most recent Major Trip. In April we jour¬

neyed east, starting with aGrandbaby Inspection in upstate New York. We then

Elderly people

worked our way into Connecticut where we spent several days conducting are¬

taliatory visit with RL and Eugenia PENN. The accommodations were plush and the price was right; all Ihad to do was repair his microwave, garbage disposal and dishwasher while we were there. Perhaps “repair” is too grand aterm. For acouple

of the jobs, Ijust liberated the instruction booklet Irom its shrink-wrapping and started on page 1.

Truth in advertising.

Aproposofnothinginparticular,IthoughtEdMONTGOMERYlookedsoturned

out In his formal clan regalia at last year’s New Years Eve party that Ithought the picture merited late publication.

The Penns and Iunlocking the hidden workings and inner mechanisms of their microwave.

We continued south to the D.C. area, freeloading along the way on various un¬

suspecting friends. The highlight of that portion of the trip was ashort-notice reception and buffet hosted by HT and Linda JOHNSON at their beautiful home. Iwas able to get some class news (which Iimmediately forgot) from HT and the other revelers: Jim CONNALLY (Molly was severely jet-lagged from their trip to

Europe and unable to attend), Dick and Vera GOETZE, Wayne and Bonnie

JOIN THE SABRE SOCIETY! YOUR MONEY HELPS EUND

CADET WING PROGRAMS THAT W O U L D O T H E RW I S E G O U N F U N D E D . CALL THE AOG FOR INFO.

networks, but in case your computer crashed that day here’s an update. Arrangements have been con rmed with the Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum

for the afternoon of Friday, 3Nov. The museum vrill be of cially closed so the tour and museum will be for us alone. Pilot availability and weather permitting, there may be demonstration ying and/or rides available. The museum web page is vnvw.oldrhinebeck.org. We will have the meeting room at the Hampton Inn both Friday and Saturday for getting together. Planning on deli platters for Saturday after the game (like last year) in the meeting room. Not sure about Friday. Last year we all met at anearby local restaurant. Could do the same this year or use the meeting room both nights. Suggestions welcomed.

This year we are planning on ashopping spree for spouses preferring spending to spectating. The shopping option has popped up for at least ahalf dozen games, so we think it is time to recognize reality and stop wasting tickets. Accommodations: Friday and Saturday, 3and 4Nov at the Hampton Inn, Newburgh, NY. $95 plus tax —single or double. Price includes deluxe continental breakfast. Please call the Hampton Inn directly to make your reservations. Tell them you are with the Class of‘59/Air Force Academy. Phone: (914) 567-9100; Fax (914) 567-6331. Cancellation date: October 3rd.

Game tickets must be ordered directly from the Athletic Association, payment by 7October. Tell them the customer number is 7300. Price is $28 per ticket (not refundable). Service charge per order (not per ticket): $3.00. Let’s try to get an¬ other robust cheering section for the Falcons this year. Thought for the quarter: Half the people you know are below average.

and Betty DE LA CRUZ, Liz and Norm, Tony and Karen BURSHNICK, RG HEAD and Carole Hoover, Ralph and Darlene LALIME, Mike and Nancy CLARKE, Bob WEINAUG, Ken ALNWICK, Bill and Fran HODSON, and Mary Ellen BURKE (Tom took the photo). The DC. '60 Beltway Boys gathered at Gampy's gourmet restaurant in Rosslyn, VA June S* to celebrate the 40"' anniversary of our graduation. Guest Speaker was A1 JOHNSON, who waxed fJnanciaJ about AFBA Five Star funds. BiJl HALES was in

from Rochester, NY, where he does pro bono work for the AJzheimer’s Founda¬ tion. GJC FRJES stiJl helps Busch Gardens and WaterWorld keep their ora pruned. Later this summer, the National Guard will be closing all west-east highways, since

Leon GOODSON is making the return trip from Seattle back to D.C. on his Harley. Bill GOODYEAR bought ahome in Annapolis for his Fall retirement. Norm HALLER moved to Front Royal, VA, where he’ll teach at Randolph Macon Academy. Bob BADGER retires from Justice this Fall. Tom BURKE treated HALES, CLARKE, and

RG HEAD to golf at his club. Others in the group were Les QUERRY, Bob WEINAUG, John MACARTNEY, RaJph LALJME, and Tony BURSHNICK, who is recovering from his April Jamanectomy for spinal stenosis.

Les QUERRY later e-mailed that he's “deeply entrenched into building acustom home on the Blue Ridge Mountains overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Hope¬ fully, it will become anice ‘Falcon’s Roost’ for '60 visitors.” Les worked on the Gemini Launch Vehicle, NASA designing Mars Lander experiments, formed aconsulting rm for telecom products, and designed the rst home computer modem for Atari back in 1982.

Edie and Chuck DIVER (Slovak Committee 3) celebrated their 40'" wedding an¬ niversary in Sedro-Wooley, WA. Children Brian and Brenda compiled anice me¬ mento album, which included all the places, they’d been over the years. (R: How many other anniversaries will we celebrate this year?)

A.J. (Rosie) Cler, Jr. 11181 West 17th Ave. (208) Lakewood, CO 80215-2759 (303) 238-4973, FAX: 237-7625 e-Fax: (509) 463-4700 E-mail: RCtherose@aol.com Percent members: 100

We can each recaU where we were when FDR died, what we were doing the day JFK was shot, and the exact time hip-hop punk rapper Eminem rst OD’d on crack. But, do we ALL know where we’re going to be October 4'"? The planets and most of the stars will be perfectly aligned for us to have agreat time at the 40'" reunion, which, as you know—unless you’ve been hiding under adirty mattress—will be next monA!

I’ve been absolutely deluged with queries about the reunion, and wish to re¬ spond right now to both questions: (Q) Will Andi BIANCUR be making lots of long and dreao'speeches? (A) No, his speeches won’t be long. (Q) Will 1be able to get medical attention in the event that one of my physical ailments rears its ugly head at some inopportune moment during the reunion? (A) Yes. And, this sounds like a job for —SOOPer KENDALL!

Volunteering to handle any medical eventuality for you oider guys will be Wayne (Killer) KENDALL, who’s an actual doctor, but doesn’t play one on TV. This mildmannered medicine man from Monument stated to this column: “My staff and I will be on full-double-medical-alert throughout the reunion, and in the blink of

an eye we’ll leap into action. Our capabilities include open-heart surgery, curing arthritis, removing tumors, correcting irritable bowel syndrome, and lotsa other

The Divers

From Steve BISHOP in Kauai: “Retiring from United after 33 years. At 65, it’s (past) time to hang it up, and go for along-planned cruise on atrawler I’m buying in Florida. Settling down with my signi cant other, Annie, play some golf, read Moby Dick and visit the grandchildren in Texas and Colorado. Looking forward to the reunion in October!”

“I had afour-vessel bypass in October ’98, then went to New Zealand in midJanuary of ’99 via two weeks in the Cook Islands. Summer ‘down under’ last year was rather poor, and this plus my recovering status slowed up the sailing abit,” writes Dave REED from Boulder. “My cardiac status is now back to normal, so I’m applying to get my powered ight ticket back from the FAA. In the meantime, I discovered one doesn’t need amedical to y gliders, so Iam now aprivate glider pilot. My new bride, Pat, is apilot also, so we have been soaring together over the foothills. Went to London and Paris last November and had aball." Dave and Pat

things. I’ll also make room calls right there at the Radisson. With my assistants

were in New Zealand sailing on their yacht “Curiosity” from January to May of

Don’t be disturbed by his nickname “Killer.” This sobriquet has nothing to do with

Highlight of our social calendar this year was the Annual Founder’s Day Dinner April O'" at Doolittle Hall, commemorating Eisenhower’s signing into law on April Fool’s Day 1954 the founding of USAFA. Along with wives and grads, from our class were Jim GL/iZA and Jeannette Howes, Hope and Jock SCHWANK, Rosie and

standing by, you guys can count your luckies, and scoff into the face of death.” (R: the high mortality rate of his patients).

Bill HALES RON’d with Liz and Norm FIALLER in March at their home, and they threw him asurprise party. Somewhere in the photo, with Bill at the front left, is Les QUERRY and his new bride, Marty Hiatt, Leon and Maryn GOODSON, Jerry

2000.

Karen CLER.

Return with me now to those days of yesteryear. The former Lowry AFB has un¬ dergone redevelopment since the base closed. Their Wings Over The Rockies Mu¬ seum contains exhibits chronicling the beginnings of Lowry, with aspecial wing devoted to the Academy. They’re now looking for good photos of those rst few weeks when we arrived, and of our rst Christmas (we didn’t go home, remem¬ ber?) Ifyou’vegot any photos/stories you’d like to donate, send them to me, and I’ll forward to the museum’s curator. Your chance to be famous.

Deke JOHNSON told me that “My grandson Dylan will be ve the day before the reunion (Oct 3). His brother Collin was one in March, and both belong to our son Derry and his wife, Tammy. Our daughter Megan has been married acouple of years, and doesn’t have children yet. Sally retired after 44 years as anurse, the past 20 as director at the Boise Veterans Nursing Home. Looking forward to seeing you guys at the reunion.” (See photo of Deke and Dylan at top of next page.) Thomas Wolfe wrote the great American Novel “You Can’t Go Home Again.” Wanna bet? Gary Lynn VAN SINGEL (Skeet Club 4,3,2,1) grew up in Grant, MI, and has gone home. He left the AF in 1964 because of wife Marilyn’s brain tumor which destroyed her pituitary gland. She had athree-year horizon when they got mar¬ ried in 1960, and they now have an adopted boy and girl and four grandchildren.

‘60 Is First Class with 100% Membership The Class of 1960 is the rst class in the history of the AOG to have all living graduates as AOG memhers. Two anonymous mem¬ bers of the class made agenerous donation to insure that the class Top photo: Party at the Haller house. Bottom: D.C. celebration of our 40f‘‘ anniversary.

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Air Force-Army Football: Ed and Judy JOSEPHSON have performed their cus¬ tomary yeoman service in organizing events at and around West Point for the 4 Nov game. Most of what follows has already been posted on the Web and e-mail

would be bonded by total membership throughout this year of their 40th reunion.

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24, 2001. Earl N. “Nelson’’ O’Rear

50582 Stonington Drive Granger, IN 46530-8243 Home: (219) 273-2597 E-mail: ENOandTJO@worldnet.att.net Class Web Site: http://www.usafa61.org/ Percent members: 83

Dylan and Friend ‘We live on a10-acre wooded lot three miles from where Iwas born, and 1-1/2

miles from Marilyn’s home. My mother lives vrith my sister on the back part of our 10 acres.” Gary’s worked for Rapistan Corp (Mannesmann Dematic) 36 years,

moved thru 14 positions, is now International Engineering manager and rides his Gold Wing 6-cylinder 1500CC to work. (R: Match that, GOODSON.) Potpourri. Jon Roby DAY says that “I sort of retired from full-time opthamology last year, now work some for an optical company and nd this anice way to slip into full retirement. Just renegotiated my contract to include that Jwould have October off for the reunion”...Is Jerry STACK, who by last report from Jon DAY was still ying for Northwest, our “Last (commercial) Pilot Standing?”...Dean BRISTOW’s AF retirement ceremony is slated for sometime during our reunion —he’s our only classmate still on active duty..Frank MAYBERRY’S selling web sites for $2,500 plus $1950/year deluxe garage door openers for his daughter in Morrison, CO.

It’s June as Iwrite this article, with premium gasoline prices hovering around $2 per gallon here. Such details make up our daily lives but are quite trivial when placed in the context of losing another from our ranks. If you hadn’t heard, Karl KELLERMAN died of natural causes at his Virginia home in April. Tom SKILLING provided the heartfelt and eloquent eulogy. Insights by others into Karl’s life and his effect on their lives can be read at our Class Web Site. Pat and

Mevrette BUCKLEY, Barb CAMPBELL, Charley DIXON, Bill and Theda FOSTER, Steve HO and Lynn, Lowell and Sandy JONES, Darrell KOERNER, John KOHOUT, Ron and Cathy MULLER, Mike RAWLINS, Jim and Linda ROGERS, Tom and Hope SKILLING, Rhoda and Bill STACKHOUSE, Charlie and Sarah STEBBINS, John and Ellen SULLIVAN, and Twy and Nancy WILLIAMS attended Karl’s services and interment at Rock Creek Cemetery, MD, where many of his family are bur-

(Frank’s wife. Eve, was born in Malta, and she’s afan of Falcon football. Does that

ied.

make her aMaltese Falcon?)...The AF Times in February reported: “Sidney H. Newcomb, Colonel —retired, died February 15th, 2000.” Wrong. Sid’s retirement checks stopped, he called the nancial center, and they told him he was deceased. After proving he was not dead, the checks started once again...Miles KASPMl sent anote from Fullerton, CA: “I plan on attending the reunion —should retire (from ying) just prior to that date”,..Jerry DE lA CRUZ says “If Ihad tried to be an artist at 25 and a ghter pilot at 60,it wouldn’t have worked. So, I’m trying it the other way around.” John MACARTNEY and vrife, Lorna, joined Betty and Jerry at agal¬ lery reception which was showing apiece of Jerry’s work. “Since this show, I’ve been in several local galleries, and had anice critical review in the Washington

Les SCHNEIDER seems to be going for a‘61er record. He writes that, “My wife Debbie and Iare expecting...again! Nov 8th. They are very excited about this and

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are hoping for aboy to even up their soon-to-be half dozen. They currently live in St, Louis but have anice lake house at the Lake of the Ozarks where they spend

most of the summer jet skiing and boating. Anyone passing their way will be most welcome. Les sent an unlisted telephone number, which Iwill be happy to provide if you contact me.

John and Sheila MAY wrote that on May 9, they became grandparents of triplets

—two girls and aboy, born to their daughter Nancy and her husband, Fritz Fulton. Each came in abit over two and ahalf pounds. As of June 10, all were approach¬

ing ve pounds, with two released from the hospital and the third to be released shortly. Sheila and John expect to spend time assisting with the babies in Littleton, CO and look forward to seeing the ’61 Colorado group while they are there.

On May 6th at Langley AFB, our group expanded with Mike RAWLINS’ mar¬ riage. Never ones to do things half way, he and Virginia (Ginny) honeymooned in Hawaii. Lowell JONES said that it was agreat event with abeautiful ower dis¬

play, and that they make an elegant couple! Nine USAFA classmate couples helped them celebrate. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of making Ginny’s acquaintance, you are in for atreat! My rst encounter was at one of PB and Marilyn O’CONNOR’S Spring Flings in North Carolina, Welcome to our group, Ginny, and congratulations, Mike! Agood catch by both of you. Here’s wishing you many happy years ahead.

Following Paul DEAN’s leadership as reported in the last issue, Dorothy and Jerry GILL sang Schubert’s Mass in Gin Carnegie Hall on Memorial Day with the

Roswell United Methodist choir. Afull house of approximately 2,000 gave them a

standing ovation. The legend of Roger Boyd lives on! That brings back fond memo¬ ries.

If Ijust stare at it long enough, maybe some nut will buy it! Presidential Campaign. IVvo months ‘til the election. The Cocktail Party candi¬ dates —Ron YATES for President and Tony BURSHNICK for Veep—have endured the full phalanx of opposition: The Bushmen, McCain/acs, Buchanan/tes, Gotellas, Perotistas, and the Trumpets. Then it hit the fan! Ron was discovered trying to lch Russian nuclear codes from outgoing President Boris Yeltsin. Then Tony publicly called Ross Perot a“pond scum weenie from Annapolis.” The public erupted in an outrage, and the press pummeled them. Late last week, in apress conference at his Monument home with the beautiful mountains and our Academy in the back¬ ground, Ron announced they were quitting the campaign: “But, the dream lives on. Tony and Iask our devoted followers to support Hunter Thompson’s Freak Power Party in Aspen.” Asad day for all of us. (R: This could signal the end of the civilized world as we know it).

Let’s make a nal visit to the R-word. When you come to the reunion, you can also celebrate some classmate birthdays: 7Oct—Jon MCCLURE (63); 8Oct—Sid NEWCOMB (63), Bill HODSON (62); 9Oct —A1 JOHNSON (64). Still got some

cockamamie excuse for not coming? The mother of aLoretto Heights coed has a bench warrant in your name for that breach of promise thing? You fear indict¬ ment from that class action suit being brought by CWC’s 1957 graduating class? (You’re assured legal protection throughout the entire reunion period -Maybe!)

Class of 1960 -40th Reunion

The ELLERS had afull and happy May and June. On May 7, their daughter Eliza¬ beth married Steve Byerly in Adanta. Classmates Hector and Joan NEGRONI, and Neal and Gwen WESTBROOK also shared in the festivities. The week after the

wedding, Tom and Anne had afamily reunion, including the bride and groom, in north Georgia. Then all attended Robert’s graduation from Vanderbilt Medical

School in Nashville. Tom swore in Dr. Robert ELLER, USAFA '96, as acaptain in

the Medical Corps. (Rob had had to resip his regular commission to use the

Defense Health Sciences Scholarship.) He is now in the inactive Reserve again for

ve more years while he does aresidency in head and neck surgery, or ENT. On May 21, also in Nashville, Robert married Kristen Mol in aceremony that con¬

cluded with atraditional saber arch manned by Robert’s classmates. Rob and

Kristen cut their wedding cake with the same cadet saber that both Rob and Tom had used as 3rd Squadron Commander, 35 years apart—-pretty neat! Tom and Anne, Julie and Kurt, and Elizabeth and Steve had also used it to cut their wedding

cakes. Following their honeymoon, Kristen and Rob were treated to receptions in Michigan and in Colorado. Terry and Carleen STORM, Tom and Susan CONLEY, Wayne and Erna HARING, Jim and Nancy WILHELM, Lillie SAUNDERS, and Jan and Randy CUBERO were among the guests who attended the reception in Doolitde Hall.

Hector NEGRONI writes that If you have never attended the World Croquet

Championship activities hosted by Brice JONES in the splendid setting of his Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards, you are depriving yourself of one of the most memo¬

rable experiences in life. From the 19th to the 21st of May, those who attended

the 14th version of this event experienced Brice’s unparalleled largesse and hos¬

pitality, sampled ve-star quality food, savored top wines, and basked in the friend¬ ship of our classmates and their spouses, family, and friends. Attending from our class were Marc and Ginger ANDERSON, Dick and Marty ARNOLD, John and Lydia

USAFA vs. Navy 4-8 October 2000

BOESCH, Bob and Jan BRICKEY, George BUCHNER and friend, Randy and Jan CUBERO, Gene and Judy DAVIS, Sam and Vivian HARDAGE, Dean and Jo JONES,

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If you haven’t signed up yet, call And! BIANCUR at (801) 278-4866. Collect, Op¬ erators are standing by. See you October 4**’. Bye from the Rose. Until then. P.S. Late arriving news (olds). The intrepid slders of the Class of 1960 met in Salt Lake City for MiniSki XFeb 26 thru March 6. Jerry DE LA CRUZ, Ralph LALIME, A1 JOHNSON, Charlie HOLMAN, Greg BOYINGTON, the Chief Instructor, and Bill OUELLETTE joined Andi BIANCUR in cruising the hallowed slopes soon to be¬ come Olympic venues. Bill has converted to snowboarding, or “Grays on Trays.’’ The Marginally Magni cent Performance Award was locked-up by Ralph LALIME, who will receive his trophy at our 40* reunion. Next year’s MiniSki will start Feb

Wayne and Mary JONES, Charlie and Lynda NEEL, Hector and Joan NEGRONI, Mike and Susan QUINLAN, and Jim and Jjnda ROGERS. Also in attendance were: Bill Charney, world’s second-best F-86 pilot (according to Hector); Lanny LANCASTER, USAFA ‘62; Burke Mucho, USMA ‘61; Dave PHILUPS, USAFA ‘59; and

Jim Wiltjer. Dave (USMA ’61) and Mimi Brooks also joined them on Sunday at Treasure Island. Mimi is acousin of our own Doug CAIRNS.

This year, young Hector Negroni and his ancee, Kimberly Weil, hosted their own table of friends. Of course, special thanks go to Brice JONES and Susan PORTH for being such gracious hosts during this fun-packed period. Following the cham¬ pionship match, the great bene t auction began, in support of the Make aWish Foundation, the Polly Class Foundation, and Magic Moments —all devoted to assisting children in life-threatening circumstances. The spontaneous outpour¬ ing of charity from our Class, among the 1,400 attendees, when each stood to make his donation, really touched Brice. Gene DAVIS wrote that this actually put the

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contributions over the million-dollar mark, anew record. Judy and Gene DAVIS

said that they certainly concur with Hector’s report. Sounds like something to consider for next May. Hector also made me aware of good work that Sam and Vivian HARDAGE have been doing since 1990 when they established the Vision of Children Foundation in San Diego. Sam writes that the mission of this foundation is eradicating heredi¬

tary childhood blindness. So much progress has been made on the biotech front that today’s advances look like warp speed compared to when they started this quest. Everything used to be manual and custom made —now there are auto¬ mated gene sequencers, and the entire human genome is literally known. They

In the front row, from left, are Jack Jamba, Mary Anne Patrie, Helen Hendryx, Nancy Gray, and Stan Patrie. In the back row are Colin Richardson, Caroline Jamba, Fred Hendryx and Willie Gray.

The photo was taken in Gilligan’s Cove Restaurant in Satellite Beach earlier this

year, kan and Mary Anne were on their way home and stopped by to see the local Redtags in the Satellite Beach area. On another trip, the Patries stopped by Ft Walton Beach and visited with some fellow Redtags and wives.

hope that their efforts will result in sight for all those children —including their son Chase —who struggles with living in avision-impaired world. Since Ocular

Albinism and the other two dozen vision diseases under their purview are some¬ what rare, state and federal governments provide no funding. Consequently, it has become necessary for the foundation to seek other funding to make these children’s dreams of clear, focused vision areality. Their web site at http:// www.visionofchildren.org (telephone number 858-794-2338) tells much more

about this foundation and how you can help. Good for you and Vivian, Sam! Great to hear that you two have taken on this challenge. 1can't imagine the thrill that awaits you when you achieve your objective. Here’s hoping that day won’t be too far off.

Hector, in his tribute to Karl, recalled the issue of Larry Johnson’s (a classmate) dismissal from USAFA. (You can read Hector’s input at our Class Web Site.) Bob HERIZA subsequently suggested potential remedies, which have been endorsed by several classmates. If anyone would be willing to take on the task of leading this effort, please contact one of our Class Of cers: Larry KARNOWSKI or Tom ELLER. It sounds as if others are willing to assist. Remember the 3rd annual Graytag Redneck Riviera Beach Weekend at Orange Beach, AL —Oct,13-15, 2000. Contact Jimmy POOLE for details. And, nally areminder that Teri and Iinvite those of you planning to attend the USAFA/Notre Dame football game this fall —October 28“’ —to our home for a

In the photo, from left, are Stan and Mary Anne Patrie, Allen and Al e Jackson,

and Randy and Lieu Schamberger. They enjoyed an evening of fun and decadent revelry as the picture so clearly shows. They didn't even try to hide the beer bottle or the two frothy cocktails. Notice most of the empty glasses and bottles are in front of Mary Anne, which explains her great smile. Ihave afew pictures from Fred Hendryx’ wedding last year that 1haven’t pub¬ lished yet.

post-game victory celebration and dinner. The only requirement is that you use the contact information at the top of this column to let us know ahead of time so that we can plan accordingly, as well as provide you directions. We hope to see many of you there.

Note that amuch-less-edited version (approximately tvrice as long) of this ar¬ ticle, plus several pictures, can be viewed at our Class Web site. Space limitations for the published version require the heavy editing. John W. “Jack” Jamba 4Judy Court Satellite Beach, FL 32937 Home: (407) 777-5520 Of ce: (407) 861-3519 E-Mail: jwjamba@aol.com Percent members: 72

Hi Redtags! Got aletter from “Deke” DINSMORE with anewspaper clipping in it with anote on it, to wit: “Jack SWONSON may be too modest to let you know of his great promotion.” The clipping states that Jack has been appointed as head of USAA’s groundbreaking Western Operations Center being built in Phoenix. Jack was senior vice president of Retail Banking with USAA Federal Savings Bank. He will now become the senior vice president of the Phoenix Operations Center. “The center wUl —when completed —rival the San Antonio headquarters in its size. Under Swonson’s direction, USAA Federal Savings Bank signi cantly increased its residential mortgage and home equity loans. Home lending is now 10 times larger in volume than when he took over in 1988. Swonson will gradually transition out of his banking duties to become the “base commander” who oversees day-to-day physical operations of the western sector on 575 acres in North Phoenix.” Con¬ gratulations, Jack, on the promotion. Keep us updated on progress of the new cen¬ ter and your family’s happenings. Got aletter from Stan and Mary Anne PATRIE. ‘Please pardon the delay in send¬ ing the photo and avery special thank you for arranging the lunch. It was so nice to be able to see the group and to get caught up on each other's lives. Our trip to Florida turned to be so much more than we expected.”

Shown in the picture is that reball of the party himself, Carl Bolster, sleeping on the couch while Colin Richardson, Tom Young and Jim Gallagher get ready to tag him. That was afun wedding. I’m still looking for apicture of Fred being thrown in the pool.

Icopied an email from Randy SCHAMBERGER to Ron POOLE, '63, who was trying to locate one of the men who started with the Redtags. “Are you talking about Darwin Edwards? Iran into him about 15-20 years ago at some kind of meeting. Can’t remember where or when, but he recognized my name on aros¬

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ter. We were in 12th Squadron doolie year. (As 1recall, he had some Army en¬ listed time before he came to the Academy). Iwas aUSAF exchange of cer with the Army at the time and Ithink he was working as acivilian at one of their labs. Iattended meetings at many army bases, since Iwas involved with chemical pro¬ tection and chemical weapons. It could have been at Ft. Sill at the Army Artillery School. I’m at the age where remembering who Imet last week is becoming a challenge, so don’t quote me on my recollections.” Sorry about quotingyou Randy, but I’m out of articles for this column. Ididn’t get very much input so I’m scrap¬

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On apersonal note. I’ll complete my year as the Toastmasters District 47 gover-

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nor for almost the entire state of Florida and the Bahamas on June 30. Then 1

would thoughtfully and pensively inquire if any of us were considering buying the

won’t have to stay up nightly until midnight to keep up with the administrative traf c. I’ve met alot of people and gotten to know the State of Florida much more intimately. Ihave also improved my public speaking skills.

place and were therefore tempted to gaze around in our preliminary real estate appraisal.” In afollow-on note Jim added an update of his ovm "... Ioccasionally dabble in acommercial enterprise or two, but for the most part I’m now pretty

Until next issue, stay healthy and wealthy and wise. And don’t forget to send me

much retired. The increased free time has allowed for some indulgences. I’ve be¬

updates to ll up the next column. Remember that you should be sending me your inputs within afew days after reading this coiumn. Don’t delay. Send today.

come the president (by default, I’m sure) of a20-piece jazz band here in San Anto¬ nio, and I’m nding the regular musical workout to be great therapy. The other indulgence retirement has afforded is the chance to cmise the Texas Hill Country aboard my Honda Goldwing motorcycle. That’s downright exhilarating. We often head north out of San Antonio in formations of six or more (sometimes gaggles of 20-30 bikes) on weekends in search of high adventure. We always nd it. Ithink at least part of the attraction for those big bikes is in the re-establishment of the ‘manmachine interface’ we enjoyed during our ying days. It sure is fun.” Notice to all ex-Slow FACs: Jon Alexaitis (Nail 68) of Bedford, TX and agroup of FACs have been compiling aSEA slow-FAC databank. They are also talking about areunion at Ft. Walton Beacb, FL for 21-24 September this year. If you are inter¬ ested or would like to get on the list, suggest taking alook at the following URL: http://wvnv.rustic.org/Reunion_News.html. You might also e-mail Jimmy Carter

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Lots of input this time and must apologize if Ihave to truncate/summarize a little to get it all in. First, however, Ihave the sad duty to notify you that two of our classmates have recently passed away: Tom FOX and Jim “Burl” KERLEY. Our sincerest condolences go out to Tom and Jim’s families. If this is the rst page you turn to when opening Checkpoints you might look at the “Gone but not Forgot¬ ten” section.

Butch VERDIER is back on the job getting ready for the annual “Victory Stomp over Navy!” On March 20* Carolee wrote to tell us Butch would be undergoing open-heart bypass surgery on March 27*. According to Carolee, he had no symp¬ toms of heart problems but the doctor was following up on his irregular nuclear stress test. Butch had aquintuple bypass surgery lasting four hours. All together he is on nine different medications —Carolee says he shakes like apillbox! Know that Butch will be facing many lifestyle changes. Butch says he is feeling ne; walking at least two miles per day and watching alot of sports on TV. The Navy

game is October 7* and ail available Golden Types will once again gather at the same garden spot north of Falcon Stadium between 9and 9:30 a.m. for the pre¬ game macarena. The post-game will be in Doolittle Hall for the annual cup cer¬ emony followed by the buffet (please let Butch know if anyone wants something different than Mexican). Butch’s aiways-reiiable assistants for this project are Drue and Betty DEBERRY. So, please share all with them. To contact Butch please use the following media: Home: (719) 260-1406, e-mail: pcverdier@juno.com, of ce:

at jimmywho@aol.com and get on the slow-FAC roster by providing in addition to name, address, call signs, squadrons, etc. For you old Bird Dog drivers—did you know this year is the 50* anniversary of the L-19 /O-1 airplane? The website above has alink to the Bird Dog Association site.

If you recall several issues ago Ihad received an e-mail note from Doug POWER relating his experiences with hurricanes, tornadoes and building anew retire¬ ment home on the Florida Keys. As apart of his celebration for the beginning of the hurricane season this month, Doug sent along an e-mail updating things. “1

don’t own acomputer even though Ispent the majority of my professional life with computers from 1968 through 1990. Iam currently at alocal library in Mara¬

thon, FL which grants its patrons one-half hour of time on the Internet. Marian and Ihave been enjoying fully retired life since 1995 here in the Florida Keys. With the exception of the direct-hit tornado and the two hurricanes, retired life has been good. We spend our time reading, gardening —I’ve planted by hand more than 35 species of palm with atotal number of tropical plants well over 400. After living at the Academy for four years and in Syracuse, NY for 10,1 nd that I am truly fascinated by all sorts of tropical plants, owers and especially palm trees. We also spend time shing and snorkeling for lobsters. Since we live directly on the Gulf of Mexico, we have no problem catching our legal limit of lobster just 20

yards offshore from our backyard. Marian is the champion sherman in the fam¬ ily and recently caught afour-foot barracuda and three-foot shark right off of our

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Back in April, Bill EBERT updated us on what has been going on with him and his family this past decade. He writes, “Since retirement in 19901 had been aprogram manager for RSI Technical Products (formerly Comsat RSI) in Dulles, VA. Our ever-

RICANE season for 2000 and I’ve checked all our shutters to make sure that they

Iam still aphysical tness and weightlifting addict. Iwork out with the serious, heavy-duty weights at least three times aweek. We’ve just started the new HUR¬

loyal classmate Fred METCALF was in the company with me as COO, then VR then president. We busied ourselves making large aperture telecommunications re ec¬

are in the proper location to put them on the widows and doors when the time comes. We keep our eyes glued to the Weather Channel and hope for the best. Anything serious and we pack up our 11 birds and three cats and head north to

reorganized and relocated. In 1999 Fred and Iwere both ‘let go.’” According to Bill,

get away from the predicted path of the storm.”

tors. In 1998 RSI was bought out by aDutch holding company and has now totally Fred is semi-retired at home making the big bucks as astock trader. Bill’s “retire¬

ment” really got underway in Sept ‘99, when he and Betty celebrated their 30* anni¬ versary vrith athree-week trip to Europe concentrating on the wonders of Italy Venice, Lake Como, Modena for the Ferrari and Maserati factories, Milan, and the Italian Grand Prix. (Ed. note: did you know that Betty is an automotive artist?) Bill

says he was the president of the Ferrari Club of America, Mid Atlantic Region, for six years and it helps to have afew friends with connections in Itaiy. After afew months Bill tired of retirement and got ajob. He tags the new job as "... atotally different career path with astart-up company called Core Software Technology in McLean, VA and Pasadena, CA. Their core product is awell-developed browser called TerraSoar used on the Internet to search widely distributed heterogeneous geospatial databases.” The exciting part of the business says Bill is the development of the website, www.imagenet.com, which will eventually sell high-resolution (one meter) satellite imagery from aconstellation of eight satellites to be launched by partner.

West Indian Space. The rst satellite, EROS lA, goes up in August. Bill is director of Washington operations setting up the Washington facility and seeing that imagenet.com, currently being run out of the Pasadena of ce, gets established in McLean. Their 24-year-old daughter, Laura, graduated from George Mason Ulast May and according to dad, she is fully independent. She sells computers to the /\rmy for GTSI (Government Technology Services, Inc).

E-mallbag: Roger CLARK vrill be visiting Seattle next month enroute to an Alaska Cruise. Roger asked for information on the sights and restaurants of the Seattle area, which was happily supplied. Here’s athought; since Seattle is now the de¬

parture point for two major cruise lines doing the Alaska thing, many of you may be visiting Seattle in the ftiture. If so, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me either by phone, e-mail or snail mail. Don NEFF updated his home address and saying he left USPA &IRA over ve

years ago and has been "Mr. Mom” (without the kids) since then. He admits golf was part of the day’s routine. Maggie has been in banking for the last nine years.

Last January they decided to really retire and move to Sun City Texas. The new address effective 27 June will be 259 Red Poppy Trail, Georgetown, TX 78628.

Bill FLYNN sent along aWEB site about “The Wall”. After taking alook, Iagreed with bill that you might be interested, http: //vnvw.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/ wall.html.

Jim WEAVER was reminded of the summer of 1959 after looking at aParade

Magazine piece about asister Service Academy on the Hudson. The article was titled “Are They Good Enough?” His comment on the article’s premise was: “As in

times past, they are probably as good as the country deserves.” He also added," .

..interestingly,thou^,thecoverphotoseemstoansweritsownquestion.Abunch

of beetle crunchers at attention, with one obvious exception, the ubiquitous gazer.” Thus his story about 1959 —“It evokes cherished memories of the summer of ‘59 when various members of the Class of ‘61 (Howie Bodenhamer comes to mind)

Included in his note Doug offered congratulations and kudos to Bill WECKER for the seamless and user-friendly AOG Mail system. (Ed. note: get lots of similar also. Bill says we can go directly to AOG mail using the following URL: inputs www.aogmail.com.)

Speaking of "retired”. Bob MCBETH says he sold all the distribution businesses he owned back in January ‘99 but stayed on as president for the new owners until near year-end. Then he, Rita and their two adult daughters went to Kenya on a tented safari and had agreat time —until near the end. At that point, according to Bob, Rita had avery serious reaction to the malaria medicine they were taking. This happened when they were deep in the bush in the Masai Mara game reserve

and had to use atwo-way radio to arrange anight air evacuation to get Rita to an

African hospital for emergency treatment. “A hair-raising experience.. .reminded of Vietnam,” says Bob. Back home he says he is “Not really sure” if he is re¬ tired. That’s kind of like the commercial trying to explain if you are a“free agent” or not. He says he wants to stay active in business, but has not seen anything of interest yet. He also says "Rita wants me out of the house” so has started looking at buying another company. Answer: Bob is not retired he is just having fun. More travel: Ed PICKENS’ sent afour-page typed summary of his and Caroline’s adventure to Madagascar. Ed titled the writing "Wonderful-Survival Madagascan Experience”. There isn’t room here to put the entire tale in this article but Ihave tried to give you a avor of the entire trip. Part of the reason for the trip was to m

visit son Mark who serves with the Peace Corps there. Some of the best parts of

Ed’s reminiscences were his description of riding buses and taxis—over 30 hours all told. The description of the trip from the Isola Parc Nationale to Mark’s village Anjoma was tiring to read. An example of the forms of transportation they used to get around is"... 18 people in asmall Toyota pickup truck-bus for three hours was areal survival experience. Idon’t know how Caroline put up with the bag of dried sh that was hung about afoot from her head.” To contrast the Toyota Bus ride, Ed’s described their stop in the Isola Parc Nationale and their stay at the Relais de la Reine. “We spent three days at the Relais de la Heine (Hostelry of the Queen) and it was truly aregal experience. The Relais is abeautifully situated, iuxury hotel that has been very thoughtfully situated among the rock outcroppings n e a r

the Isola Parc Nationale. It is aself-contained hotel complex that probably

rivals the nicer hotel complexes in Arizona. It generates its own power, uses solar

heatingforwater,andhasnotelephonesorsatellitelinkstotheoutside.Thefood

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fortable. 1went horseback riding twice across the open savanna at sunset with

just three or four of us in the little group. We forded streams on horseback, climbed among the rocks on horseback, and even visited aremote Malagasy tribal village

Ron, Tom, Kevin, Ed, Leroy, Adm. Stockdale, Robby Risner, and all of the others. I imagined their agony and remembered those who didn’t return. All Ican say is, if you haven’t seen Return With Honor, you need to.” Thanks, Tony. Ifelt the same way, but couldn’t put my feelings down nearly as eloquently. Several ‘64 classmates have been participating in either Return With Honor in¬

on horseback. The Relais rented us the four-wheel drive vehicles with drivers for

terviews or other memorial ceremonials. Iwas channel-sur ng one night in Waco

making our daily excursions into the Isola Parc Nationale. After you returned, the beautiful swimming pool awaited you among the unique rock formations that surrounded the hotel.” What agreat experience! 1remember going into Tannarive (that’s what we called it back then —circa 1966) in my shiny new C-141A. Think the French stilled controlled Madagascar as acolony at that time. Maybe next

when Isaw aface Irecognized. Iwent back to the PBS channel and saw that Ron BLISS was speaking at aceremony at the Waco War Memorial.

time Ed could send along acouple of pictures.

More travel adventures. This time from Ralph WETTERFIAHN and as only Ralph can write. “Saw the note from Art JOHNSON in Checkpoints, and yes, Idid get into Russia. It all came about from acomment Linda HICKS doe’s boss) made at our

35th Reunion. She mentioned that Russian pilots who had fought in the Korean War had come to Washington in search of info on their MIAs. She thought their involvement in the air war might make agood story. Well, Ihear suggestions all the time these days, and I’m sure most people think I’m not listening... but Iam. Linda turned me on to afew contacts and low and behold, In the dead of winter Ifound

myself looking down from aDelta jet at snow-blanketed Rodina for the rst time. ‘My accommodations in Moscow were acouch in acrowded apartment. In the next few days, Idid interviews in drafty ats and pawed through dusty material at the Russian State Archives —entry there being atwo-beer story in itself. Icame across faded photos of American POWs, some staring with the blank expression of the doomed, some marching in columns, head downcast. Meanwhile Iwas getting to do this while their country was at war. “Although we were far from the sounds of battle, the ghting in Grozny was on everyone’s mind. As you came out of the Moscow Metro, you invariably ran a gauntlet of gray-uniformed security police who would poke you In the ribs with their stripped billy clubs if your credentials were to be examined. Have the wrong paperwork and you were escorted to atruck outside and were not seen again in Moscow. Every tunnel under the wide avenues was manned in the center by these same policemen. When you descended into the passageway, you had best not turn around. Troop trucks rumbled through streets, not in convoys, but in ones and twos, the troops peering out wide-eyed and wary. The message was clear: 'We

are here in force should anyone from Checknia have athought to disrupt things.’ ‘With that in mind, on asnowy Friday evening, Ifound myself at the Bolshoi,

third-level, box seat. The theater is pre-revolution with ornate woodwork and gilt trappings. We had red velvet chairs to sit upon. The place was sold out, all six

levels SRO, The music began. Swan Lake. Ihave heard Tchaikovsky all my life, but never with the visual accompaniment. When those 33 ballerinas came on stage and began their uid movements to that music, Iwas transported to an¬ other part of the universe.”

Back to reality. Jim DIFFENDORFER sent along the following for inclusion in the Class News: “About ayear and ahalf ago, many of us met for our 35th. We

celebrated the lives of fallen classmates through the use of our class cups. We cherish that ceremony and respect the memory of friends. It is not the small bit of

silver that is important; rather, it is the signi cance we give to the tradition of honoring our dead. Ibelieve my thoughts represent all of us when Isay we have established atradition we hold dear and we want to continue as long as the last one of us lives, and beyond! It’s the ‘beyond’ part we need to consider. Ipromised during the Saturday evening dinner Iwould begin an investigation into this mat¬ ter before the 40th. Experience has taught me many open minds working together result in more and better alternatives. Iwelcome your thoughts and ideas about how the tradition of using the cups can be continued after we are gone. Waiting for the class of 2063 to carry the ball is probably alittle late! Give me your thoughts, they need not be elaborate, just outline ascenario and write me anote or e-mail

me at: james.h.diffendorfer@boeing.com. Thanks for your help. Be happy, Diff.” That’s it —no more room. Until next time—please take care.

Kevin McMANUS was quoted at Bolling AFB about how the POWs viewed their resilience and renewed con dence in humanity. “Life is aseries of two steps for¬ ward, one step backward,” said McManus. After amoment of contemplation, he added, “Sometimes three steps backward.” “But the people who were (in the states)

in the ‘60s and ‘70s had it much tougher than we did,” he continued. "It is much harder making choices than not making achoice. And we really had only one choice when you got right down to it -to live or not to live -because you could give up. And there were some that did.”

Other News: Norma LONGO wrote: “Just wanted to let you know Ray and Ien¬ joyed the reunion too. (Better late than never, right?). One new note: Ray’s now ying the 747-400 out of Honolulu (for United), so we’re moving over there. Can hardly wait!” Fred GREGORY e-mailed, “I’m happy to announce that yet once again, Barbara and Ihad the privilege of hosting apractice reunion at our home in Annapolis, A bunch of guys came, escorted by some of the most beautiful young ladies I’ve ever seen. This year Bob LEVINS, Jeff LEVY, Dave NEAL, Bob HALEY, Tom TILL, Karl WIDMAYER, John WILES, Lee DOWNER, Harv MANEKOFSKY, Bob CHRIS¬ TOPHER, Bill SKAER, Paul BELMONT, George ANDERSON, Pete MORRISON, A1

ROGERS, and Jack BAKER and some others showed up. Even though it was close to 100 degrees outside, most tolerated the heat and humidity just to eat another piece of Louisiana-style fried turkey, expertly prepared by Dr. Curtis Graves, a former Texas State Representative, asenior manager of NASA and anative from New Orleans. Everybody enjoyed themselves, recalling the 35th reunion, recent job changes, and their families. The afternoon ended with boat rides down the

South River into the Chesapeake Bay. Ithink we’ll do this again! The day before, A1 ROGERS, Thad WOLF, Jack BAKER and Iattended the funeral at Arlington of Col Robert Douglas Carter, known to many of us as “Bobby Airpower.” He was the AOC of the 12th Squadron our doolie year and continued as the AOC of the 17th Squadron when the Wing expanded. He was quite an inspi¬ ration, an excellent father and husband, and ahell of a ghter pilot. Class Gift: lay KELLEY wrote about the status of our class gift operation. “To date we have contributed or piedged $36,566. We are well on our way to covering the Contrails for each new member of2004 and each member of ’64 plus the usual suspects of staff, etc. The Contrails will be issued to each member of 2004 at a

ceremony on 3Aug, which ‘64 will be invited to participate in. The AOG will for¬ ward the Contrails to each member of‘64 after early August. “Lookin’good! Any¬ thing over the Contrails requirements can go toward the AOG Paver program for

our deceased classmates. Iam sure we will be in good shape -as ’64 always is.

Mavericks from the start, hell bent to lead the way!” Sad News: Matt FEIERTAG sent along this message about anote from Bruce BERTRAM’S daughter, after Matt had sent Bruce an update on the reunion. “Dear Matt, my name is Theresa Anderson, and Bruce Bertram is my father. Idon’t know

if you know this, and Iapologize if you do already, but my Dad passed away on Feb. 8th. They found three brain tumors 10 days prior. Ihave his computer now, and Iam trying to answer any e-mail that he may not have had achance to. Iknow he wanted to go to that reunion. He spoke of it often, and he even got an old pic¬ ture of the entire class out to show me afew months ago. Mom said she received the new picture, but, unfortunately. Dad didn’t get the chance to see it.” Iwas going to end this column with that story, but Idecided to nish on one t h a t t u r n e d o u t b e t t e r.

Subject: Harley Man: Rip THOMAS writes that, “I was moved to send this by Matt Feiertag's pic in the new grad magazine. Nice to know Iam not the only old man who has taken leave of his senses. Matt looked dangerously skinny to me, but that may be amatter of perspective. The rest of the story is Iwrecked mine after about two weeks and 140 miles. Ireally hated being astereotype. No serious dam¬ age except to my ego and to the bike. It did give my large body achance to develop some spectacular bruises and grow some new hide. It seems to still be able to do that, only more slowly and painfully than Iremember.

Bob Hovde 2 0 6 Wa l k e r A v e .

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Letter: Yes, Ido get them once and awhile. ludy and Guy DENNIS wrote to say

what agreat reunion we had -including the very enjoyable, but not-even-closeto-winning game of golf Guy continued, “Sometimes Ithink that Iget to know some of our classmates better at the reunions than when we were all in school

together. [Maybe “mature” people appreciate subtle things more?) Now that spring has nally arrived here in New England [Amherst, NH[, I’m looking forward to another gol ng season. Guess I’ll have to wait until the next reunion before play¬ ing golf again at the Academy.” [What Ireally wonder is, did you write just to the Melia Barcelona hotel stationery, or did you just use the stationery to write?] Return With Honor Movie: Sometimes Tony COVAIS isn’t safe when you leave him alone. He e-mailed alarge list [If you didn’t get his e-mail and have an e-mail address, you must be missing in action -please send it to me.) about his experi¬ u s e

ence when watching Return With Honor the rst time. “Barb was out of town (babysitting with one batch of grandkids). So, Iwas alone to watch Return With

Honor the rst time. I’m glad Iwas alone. It was avery moving and personal expe¬

rience. Itried to send Barb avoice mail after the video ended. Icouldn’t even

speak. Ihad to wait until this morning to phone her.

Ihad no idea that 1was so deeply tied to aii those years my comrades were lled with pain and in captivity. Ijust can’t express clearly enough how Ifelt when Isaw

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was exquisite, mostly French. The views from the dining rooms and reception areas were exceptional, to say the least. Our bungalow was very nice and com¬

Rip Thomas and his launching platform. Keep those e-mails coming. When you attach pictures, try to save them as tiff ies -or at least something that has more pkels per inch than JPEG (jpg) les. Your photo scan software should give you achoice. The AOG editor doesn’t think JPEG les come out clear enough in black and white.

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my summer dovm there helping him with the construction. So, Idon’t know if we’ll be making any other trips this summer than down to Oklahoma and maybe Texas. PERRY: Jim and Kathy have resigned from the Uof Florida and are starting a private practice. Alexis is now in 6th grade and involved In piano and soccer (the

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Hello‘65’! Please take amoment to remember Len KRUCZYNSKI. In his wife,

preferred activity). It sounds like all their girls and families made it to Florida for Thanksgiving (Leslie and Gregg and daughter from Portland, ME; Betsy and

Valerie’s, words: “Sadly, Len Kruczynski lost his battle with leukemia and died on May 11th. He had had abone marrow transplant at Fred Hutchinson in Seattle on 9-9-99 and things went very well for several months. Then, for some unknown reason, the graft failed. Fred Hutch and Stanford Hospital were coordinating an effort to do asecond transplant when Len developed afungal pneumonia. With¬ out an immune system, it was alosing situation.” Len sounded great the last time Italked with him and was enthusiastic about becoming the class scribe. Please also remember Mike NOLAN in your thoughts and prayers; his wife, Beth, passed on recently. Joe KOENJG, stalwart lad and former scribe that he is, sent the following vol¬

Michael, Kristin from Gainsville). There were two “surprise” announcements and there will be two more Perry grandchildren next year for atotal of three. R'YERSON: Life has been well in south Florida. Chuck still spends time in L.A. Don’t know if that will change because UAL has closed their DC-10 base in LAX. However, Chuck bid on, got, and just nished training to be aB-737-300/500 cap¬

ume after the last deadline:

union and hopes all others can do the same. THOMAS: Did athree-week tour (June/July) of Germany, Austria and Italy with Paul’s mom and dad and of course, Serena. Remodeled the “little lake cabin” to accommodate Joan’s active retired activities. Paul still ying (Mach .92 Citation X)

Niner Spring Update 2000. Skip COX: Skip continuing with Merrill Lynch and trying to spend more time with Susan (who is now all but retired) and their two grandchildren. Grandson Patrick arrived in Dec ’98 and joined sister Sarah. Skip and Susan get them for overnights often since they live in the SA area. Susan’s 105-

tain. So, he says he’ll be ying with his favorite captain for his last three years at

UAL. He and Alice took aJune vacation to Alaska and cruised south to Vancouver

—a MUST auise they say. With all the cruises and trips we Niners are taking, and

many to the same place, he suggests getting some coordination going and do them together. He hopes to arrange his ying schedule to be able to make it to the re¬

and Portugal.

for General Mills, now regularly to Europe. Their personal plane, Navion, took them to Wyoming and Montana In August and to many small places for weekend trips. Serena at eight is very active and excels In charm, swimming, hiking, biking and talking—and reading and art. She wants to be avet when she grows up. Kyle still In Portland working for Circuit City and the Army Guard. VALENTINE: The legal practice continues to primarily represent labor unions. All three daughters

Steve DAVIS: Steve opened his new business, ATS Aggressive Tax Solutions, in Jan 2000. Preparation for that only allowed one shing trip in 1999. Steve and Sue

ting to see the two grandsons easy and as always enjoyable. Cindy and Dennis

year-old grandmother, Ivy, lives with them full time -Skip says she has aterri c

sense of humor and ajoy to have and still attends church every Sunday. Chuck DAHLBERG: Absolutely thrilled with their rst grandchild, Sophia. Made cruises to the deep Caribbean and another to Maderia, Canary Islands, Tunisia

did get to vacation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in June. Sue got “tourista” sick after returning home. Sue retired in Feb and in addition to being afull-time grandma

mostly does alot of sitting to save her arthritic knees which have severely limited her mall walking. Their two girls (Shari, Reid’s mom, and Kathy) live in the local area. Steve and Sue joined the Edwards and Goebels at the San Diego State game last year for amini Niner reunion. Mike DOUGLAS: Continues with TRW and spent almost half the summer in Norfolk. He’s OK after totaling his ’67 Jag but now has to drive the Porsche (makes

going to work more enjoyable). Did aweek on Ambergris Cay in Belize in Febru¬ ary, Florida twice to celebrate Mike’s mom’s 80th and help her move (she’s so busy now in her retirement home that they have ahard time getting hold of her), Williamsburg in the summer, and three backpacking/hiking trips to Pagosa

Springs, Kids are doing well—got them in Atlanta (Shannon), C. Springs (Jeff and Shari), and Anchorage (Rob and Kelle). Linda’s employment closed ayear ago and she’s been doing “home” work and taldng computer classes. She’s gotten involved

with Melaleuca and The Worth Collection home businesses. They are talking of continuing the Melaleuca after Mike retires. J.C. EDWARDS: JC is still working at TRW on aclassi ed satellite program. Pat

led 66 people (46 choir members plus others) to Europe and back in July. JC and Pat spent an additional week touring the Czech Republic by car. They remodeled their detached garage to add an attic and a“studio” for the treadmill and the tro¬ phies, and someday the grandchildren’s playroom. Trips this year included Ha¬ waii, Dallas and San Francisco. Steven, in SF, is director of marketing for an Internet

startup company —sophisticated information retrieval and organizational pro¬ gram to help organize your web life. Amanda, in SF also, working with astartup, on-line home improvement center. She is playing rugby, singing opera and devel¬

are now In Colorado (two married and the youngest in college). That makes get¬ continue active in their hobbies—Arabian horses and CU sports. They are heavily

involved In the local and regional Arabian clubs (Denny is the volunteer regional director and web page manager). They had one of their horses shown at the Na¬ tional Arabian Show and he was fourth. Next year the hope is that one of their

daughters can take the place of lastyear’s trainer to show the horse. Cindy’s dad at 90 years of age still attends the CU football games with them. VICKERY: John changed jobs from the CAP to Alabama State University. He states that resolved many ethical dilemmas for him and is looking forward to the re¬ union to share tales and learn how others have handled ethical issues in their job

environments. Sarah continues her enjoyment and superior performance at the AU library. They visited their son’s and families in Atlanta (Peter) and Washington (Stuart). John spent much of his time on house projects but in both cases it was ’ preparation for arriving or expected grand babies. They were there (in Atlanta and In the hospital) for the arrival of Jessica and John says It’s much different than m

what he remembers at Lakenheath. “I attended the D.C. mini-reunion this last

weekend (scribe’s note: early April 2000) and will be sending you aphoto of the Chief with afew of us. Ihope to also put together some info on who was there and

their updates. Tom Owens did agood job of organizing the mini-reunion and it hosted most graciously and warmly by Mike and Jane. PS. We have over 75 percent of both the grads and non-grads from our squad¬

w a s

ron “committed” to attending the reunion." Thanks so much, Joe.

Joe teaches physics to vocational high schoolers now these past seven years, thus ensuring aspecial place for himself in heaven for those who’ve already seen Hades. 1

oping an independent movie to ll her time.

Vic GRAZIER: Vic continues with the Association for Christian Conferences,

Teaching and Service ministering to the military, especially internationals, here at WPAFB. Marsha supports him and is always busy teaching “ESL” to some of the many international wives here with their husbands. Son Dan graduated from RPI

with his MS and in time landed ajob with Hewlett-Packard in Sacramento. In

August, Vic and Marsha visited their two grandsons and Claire and Bob (now an AOC) while doing some business in the C. Springs area, Vic’s big home self-help project for the year was to tear out the concrete driveway and have it replaced. And he helped me on my deck too!

Jerry KEYSER: Jerry got an “offer he couldn’t refuse” and retired from Boeing in July and is taking/took asix-month sort-it break. Dee is still part-time antique

mall, interior decorator and independent decorator. They both took some golf

lessons, leisurely traveled the West and Northwest U.S, and Canada and included an inside passage cruise to Alaska. Their grandchildren total stands at ve (Jeep

and Bonnie have two boys, Jody and Liz have two girls, and Jill and Mark have a

girl) and they are now all within a20 mile radius of Pinetop. Dee says they all get together almost every Sunday and “Yes, We are Blessed!” Joe KOENIG: Just as an update to our Christmas letter: my mom has decided to sell the “homestead” (been in Lawton since my sbcth grade year) and move to Texas

Class of 1965 -35th Reunion

USAFA vs. Navy 4-8 October 2000 Prayer Breakfast 6Oct. 0730-0900 Wyndham Colorado Springs Hotel

K ' u ‘65ers with one of their own: The Chief. Ireceived this from Steve WALLACH: Greetings from sunny Fort Lauderdale. This is the rst time I’ve ever sent in any class news, so Ihope it’s in the proper

format. Atotally unof cial and wholly unauthorized ’65 (24th squadron) mini¬ reunion was held May 6and 7at Steve and Geri WALLACH’S oceanfront condo in Fort Lauderdale for the annual Air and Sea Show—A Salute to the Military. Roy

and Benita BRIDGES were present, along with Tim and Judy WOLFE and John HUETTER to witness agreat air show ying along Fort Lauderdale beach over a ve-hour period! Every branch of the military (including the Coast Guard) showed off much of its inventory in ight: B-1, B-2, B-52, KC-135, F-117, F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, A-10s (with guns and bombs blazing). Falcon Jet, helicopters galore, the Ca¬ nadian Snow Birds, the Blue Angels, various civilian aerobatic groups and solo performers. The show is an annual event the rst weekend of May. Roy BRIDGES, now director of the Kennedy Space Center, was the original USAF acceptance test

Speaker: Lt. Gen. (Ret) Bruce Fister, ‘64

pilot for the A-10, and gave the group arunning commentary as the aircraft per¬

formed their attack maneuvers in front of the condo. Tim WOLFE is president

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and live with my brother. So, this summer’s planned Koenig reunion has been changed to a“help Mom clean out and pack” for the downsizing. My brother is

Rick Zurbrugg

they get the land cleared, Phil Is planning on starting afamily cabinet business. It

resides in Alameda, CA, where he is CEO of astart-up "clean energy” transporta¬ tion rm building and selling electric bicycles (no kidding!). Steve WALLACH is one of only 22 board-certi ed lawyers in Aviation Law in Florida, and now serves as an aviation consultant to airlines, corporations and individuals regarding avia¬ tion-related safety, management, economic and operational issues. Also, ran into Bob GIFFEN recently at aspace shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center. His com¬ pany has acontract with NASA to teach their employees about the human factors of space ight. (I thought NASA was the expert on that subject.) P.S. Alot of people we met at the Kennedy Space Center recommended reading the book Dragon y, which is about the joint U.S.-Russian space endeavors, and which devotes many pages to John and Brenda BI-AHA. So thank you, Joe KOENIG and Steve WALLACH for writing the column this time. As a nal note, a20-something AF captain of my acquaintance is currently up¬ grading to the C-130 and turns out that his “sim-guy” is acertain likeable Robert Gordon KEMMERER of North Little Rock, Imagine that. See you in October and be well, do good work and keep in touch. Cheers, Rick

sounds like the pioneer spirit is still alive.

I’ll end on asad note. The AOG has noti ed us that Ty WEIHE died in May of pancreatic cancer. He and his wife, Bonnie Lee, were living in Wichita, KS. Keep

those e-mails owing to your lonely scribe. Until next time.. .Happy Landings! Larry Wilson 13100 Pinehurst Ave. NE

Albuquerque, NM 87111 Home: (505) 291-8949 Work: (505) 846-2510/DSN: 246-2404 E-mail: Lwilsn628@aol.com Percent members: 66

Greetings folks. As you read this edition, you may feel as Ido, that 1may have nally “broke the code! After all these years of sometimes scraping for input, this time Itapped the Mother Lode of the AOG’s e-mail address repository (as all of you can too) and, vo a!—here is awealth of info from awide range of folks. More a b o u t t h e w e b s i t e l a t e r.

Ryan Denny 1635 Mary Todd Lane O’Fallon, IL 62269 Home: (618) 624-4255 Work: (314) 232-4180 E-mail: ryanden@aol.com

First of all, let me clear up amisconception: John MCCRILLIS and Em MONDA

Percent members; 73

Greetings, Redtags! /Uiother summer’s gone and you haven’t written. Your poor old scribe just sits and stares at the monitor, waiting for those magic words: “You’ve got mail!” OK, enough guilt. Now for the news. Rusty GIDEON retired from his job as commander of the Air Force Safety Cen¬ ter on June 8(does that date sound familiar?). In addition to being the 34“' anni¬ versary of our commissioning, it was also the date that Rusty bailed out of an A-10 in 1978. In honor of his retirement, the rest of us “bulldogs” from 13* Squadron gave Rusty apicture of the 13* Squadron patch, signed by all of us who could still write. We also gave him anice shing pole so he would have something to do in his retirement. Which reminds me, there are afew “technical” corrections Ihave

to make to the last newsletter. In that article, Isaid that Rusty was moving to Wyoming to chase horses. In fact, he is really moving to Idaho to chase cows. (Not

that much difference.) Rusty and Ann have aranch called the “Flying Eagle” near TVrin Falls and all of us are invited to come visit and help punch cows. Another mistake Imade was in writing that Nick BCEHOE, the Air Force’s IG, was the only other classmate still on active duty. Of course, Iforgot about Hans MUEH, who is apermanent professor and head of the Ghemistry Department at USAFA. Nick will probably retire next year, with 35 years; but Hans can stay until he’s 100 or so. Spence DANIELS sent the enclosed picture of the Albuquerque ‘66ers who had amini-reunion at Rusty’s house afew weeks before the retirement. Spence works for adefense contractor in Albuquerque (BDM?), but sent me the picture from a

hotel in Baltimore, where he was TDY. He also promised to visit Rusty and take a picture of him punching cows sometime in the near future. Thanks, Spence.

do NOT live in Nashville any more. Both now live in Louisville, BJY. In fact they have never lived in Nashville, but Iseem to have got it wrong atime or two in the past. Em is the chief of Security for Tricon (KFC, Pizza HUT, Taco Bell). When John last saw him, Em had just returned from Dubai where he spent much of his time react¬ ing to false alarms from his own company security alarm. John’s daughter Shani just graduated IfomAuburn’s Vet School—parents are pretty proud. John hadheard that Dave KNOX is recovering well from his bypass surgery afew months ago. Len VERNAMONTI is happily on the way to grand parenthood x2 later this sum¬

mer; he and Betty are now “of cially empty nesters” and Len is retired. Again. “Jan 31 of this year was my last day as Pres and CEO of ITD. My board offered me a chance at early retirement and Itook it. Now Iam working on becoming eligible for my third retirement check. Tm on the payroll full-time until July 31 as the senior advisor to the company. So if any of you know of someone who needs ahotshot executive, let me know. My aim is maximum pay for minimum hours!” Len, this may come as asurprise, but Ithink that is the aspiration of many of us. Len is one of the 7th Sq folks who are planning to attend asquadron reunion in Alaska this sum¬ mer, hosted by George FRUSHOUR. I’ve been infoed on anumber of the messages on this affair, and it looks like agreat time. Ihope to get arecap after its over. From Jim GEORGE: He just joined the Orange County, CA, AOG chapter, cour¬ tesy of Scott JACKSON who is recorder for and helps steer the group. Jim is off to Atlanta “for 757/767 captain checkout that will run through 18 July. Ioriginally

had abid to CVG, but as of yesterday, will now be based in ATL after training, starting 1Aug. (Still along way but an easier commute from Orange County John Wayne (SNA) to ATL”

Here’s something abit different from the humdrum from Mike RYAN: “I just completed the “Run for the Wall” on my Harley-Davidson, again this year. It is an annual motorcycle ride from L.A. to D.C., across the heartland of America that

arrives the Friday before Memorial Day. It was so great last year, 1had to do it again this year. The ride is an awareness activity started 12 years ago to bring attention that we still have POW/MIAs unaccounted for, from all wars. Because

of our age group, however, it is most focused on the Vietnam War. Idotheridefor our classmate, my roommate, and best friend while at the zoo, John S. (Scotty) ALBRIGHT II, who was lost in aC-123K, dropping ares over Laos, on 13 Dec 68. He and our other classmate on that mission, Morgan DONAHUE, have never been fully accounted for... (and) Charles HOSKINS was lost in an F-4 in SEA and has

1 The Albuquerque crowd: Ed Tooley.JoeFaix, Rusty Gideon, Jim Higham, Stan Boyd, and Jim Carson (being held up by Stan).

Stretch STRZEMIECZNY e-mails that he decided to take pity on my request for information and send me all that he had. (This will, of course, leave Stretch with

no information of his own, until he reads this article.) Stretch has been working for Northrop Grumman for the past 13 years and is currently the program man¬ ager for the B-2 Operational Weapon System Support contract. He says that we have two other Redtags working on the B-2. Chuck KENNEDY is the engineering manager for Air Vehicle Systems and Bob HOWARD is the Logistics Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead. They are all feeling the effects of defense downsizing which moved their work location from Pico Rivera in L.A. to Palmdale in the high

desert, and added more than afew miles to their daily commute. Jim MEADOWS claims to have the best job in the world —and Ialmost believe

him. He is in charge of converting the former Presidio Army Base in San Fran¬ cisco into anational park. He is the executive director of the Presidio Trust, a

federal executive agency chartered to make the Presidio the rst nancially selfsuf cient national park. Jim says that he spends more time in the Pentagon now than he ever even thought about while on active duty. He also says that he sets “jointness” back about acentury every time he reminds his Army and Navy co¬ workers about the permanent home of the Commander in Chiefs Trophy in Colo¬ rado Springs,

Phil BRUCE and family have move to the mountains of northwest Georgia, where they are clearing some forest to huild ahome, gardens, and acabinet shop. They arrived at their homesite just before winter and progressed If om atent to aquicklybuilt cottage to atemporary manufactured home as the weather got worse. Once

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and general manager of Fremont Cablevision in Fremont, OH. John HUETTER

also not been accounted for. As we ride through Kansas every year, and stop for remembrances, he is remembered as unaccounted for. His home town was Shawnee Mission, KS.” Mike, thanks for the reminders of our absent friends and fallen comrades.

One of our number has taken up some less popular causes. Ben LAROSA wrote that “I have been lobbying for the repeal of the income tax since the late 1970s when Idetermined, after considerable research, that it never applied to most Americans and that it is being enforced fraudulently. Ihave continued this re¬

search up to the present time, and have only found more evidence to support my original conclusion." Go for it Ben!

Russ MURRAY is headed to Vail for the July 4th holiday to participate in the

Supermasters Division of the Vail International Lacrosse Tournament, playing for

the “Graybirds,” USAA’s alumni team, “Last year we placed second in our divi¬ sion. The highlight was our win over the Navy “Old Goats;” the rst Air Force

lacrosse win over aservice academy (well, kind of). As ateam we have begun a

very active association with the current varsity and Iwould love to hear from team¬ mates who would enjoy participating in activities at USAFA or the tournament in

Vail. Iseem to be the “senior citizen” by several years and the company of some other ‘mature’ players who can still make it up and down the eld would be great. Contact is Gbirdlax@aol.com.” Chuck BEATTIE—are you out there? From Utah, Conrad HOUSER checked in. “The last of my eight children gradu¬ ates from high school... off to BYU in the fall. Of the eight, sfat are married with 14

grandchildren. There will be 31 of us at our home for the weekend... I’m doing a

lot of international legal expert witness work in the natural resources arena these days along with my legal practice.”

And from Smoky GREENE: “Three years since hanging up blue suit. Hung a consulting shingle upon retiring —research and write AF C2 concepts —so far has kept me in shing tackle and golf halls, but doesn’t allow me too much time to

sh or golf. We have decided to stay in the Washington DC area for the time being. Kids and grandkids nearby and plenty of work to do trying to x what the Found¬ ing Fathers screwed up.”

From Ted MCADAM: “Diana and Icelebrate 32 years of marriage June 8th and we have enjoyed living in Las Vegas since the Air Force brought us here in 1982. I own aconsulting company. Strategies 4Success, and nd plenty of time to play

tices environmental law in Newport Beach. Our daughter is in the racing busi¬

ness at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in sales and marketing. And Diana Is the marketing services manager at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

We are busy and healthy.” And the Longest-Time-Since-I-Heard-Anything From-Or-About-an-Old-FrlendAward goes to Paul TACKABURY, checking in for him and his bride. "Since Pam and Iwithdrew from the military-industrial complex feeding trough at the end of '99 (I took early retirement from Northrop Grumman), we are very poor sources of information. Ican provide ashort (get it?) personal update though. Pam is an English professor at Fullerton CC, still bringing enlightenment to SoCal’s youth. She certainly enjoys her association with the college and the academic system, and has no immediate plans to change her work status. She is home for the sum¬ mer giving one-on-one supervision to her most challenging employee—me. Jenny, our oldest, is with the CorVel Corp, ahealth care mgmt group. She even has an income and a401k! Molly is nishing her rst year at UC Davis Vet School, carv¬ ing up former four-legged friends, and will soon be off on asummer romp to work in azoo in Tennessee and generally begin to make the large, small, weird animal decision required next year. Iam unemployed, living off the distant glow of ac¬ complishments past, doing battle with Greenspan via Schwab, managing the women's business matters, and building personal airplanes (also traveling in these airplanes). Oh, and we moved to Laguna Beach last December into anearly com¬ pleted house with lotsa ants. So we have not hurt for company, or things to do so far in 2000." True story: the last contact Ihad with Tack and Pam was at Nellis in about '82. One of them (1 think Molly) had broken something and Irecall looking

at X-rays with Pam, who at that time had recently published achildren’s book. This e-mail is agreat means to get reconnected. Short notes; Bill GERBER is anew grandparent. Roger CARLETON is college shopping for daughter Kindall. John HOLSTEIN will miss the CS-07 reunion in Alaska due to dental work (?). Daniel CRANDALL is currently enrolled in the Gradu¬ ate Architecture Program at the University of Washington. Bob BARNUM "...gets to the O'club at Luke more than once aweek, but never sees any of the '67 grads. We must be getting too old?” He’s going to Colorado in July and may look up some old 21st Sq cronies. Steve and Ann CZONSTKA have moved into their dream home down in Niceville (Bluewater Bay), FL. “After living most of (their) professional lives in townhomes, including the last 16 in agolf course townhouse on the rst

Wedding Photo #1: From left are Jim Terry, newly-wed daughter Amanda, sonin-law Anthony, daughter Jenny, and wife, Carolyn.

graders in the Albuquerque area. Jim continues to enjoy his work on the F-22, soaring on the weekends, and serving as ight captain of the local Order of Daedalians. Congrats to Jim and Carolyn, and to my buddy Amanda, who Isee from time-to-time when Ivisit her of ce at SAIC.

The next letter comes from one of the guys who went to basic summer with me

in Cougar Flight -Richard VIHEL. It had been more than 30 years since we had been in touch with one another and it really drove home the message Iattempted

to get out in the last column. “Take the time to contact aclassmate! We are not going to be around forever. It can make agreat deal of difference to both of yoa” Richard went through pilot training at Webb, served as an 0-1 FAC in Vietnam

(1969-1970) -including time spent with the First Australian Task Force, served a

KC-135 tour at Altus, and instead of returning to Vietnam, as he requested, he was

sent to Goose Bay, Labrador. Seeing that the Air Force assignment system wasn’t listening, he exited the Air Force in July 1973. Jobs over tbe next two years read like aHemingway novel; cowboy in Arizona; bush pilot in Western Australia; “jackeroo” on acattle station in Queensland, Australia; and bouncer in amining town pub in Mount Isa, Queensland. He returned to the U.S. in 1975 and entered law school at Arizona State. After graduating and passing the bar exam in 1978, he

green, (they) decided to purchase alot adjacent to beaver-pond wetlands, and

went back to Australia and went to law school in Perth. On atrip back to Arizona

build (their) nal resting place.” Joe BURKE is on the nal leg of his Ph.D. in clini¬ cal psychology, working on his dissertation.

from Perth, he met and married his wife, Rhoda (an English lady), they both moved

Eor you athletic letter and number winners: go to the Athletic Association's web

solicitor in 1981 and worked his way up to CEO of apublicly traded company in

site at Http://www.airforcesports.com and get yourself on your appropriate team

roster. For all ofyou with e-mail, get to the AOG web site at http:/ /wvw.aogmail.com/ and get your e-mail address entered into their e-mail forwarding system so that I and others can contact you easily for Checkpoints info updates and other impor¬ tant stuff. About our '67 web site: we are moving forward, maybe will have aquality

piece of work to announce in the next Checkpoints and vrill try to e-mail all if it is “up” sooner; all compliments of Victoria LENNE, Marshall’s better half, askilled, talented artist who is building it for us as alabor of love. Remember our 30th, and the class gift to the AOG? Well, it is coming along, in

slightly different form from how it started. Semi of cial progress report from AOG contact: “The pavers and plaque for your class are in the ground and it looks great!” Thanks to all of you that shot me anote; drop me an e-mail or note or whatever

and I’ll try to share it with the group, so we are all up to date for our 35th... Not too far off. Vaya con Dios!

to Australia, and had ason, Stephen, in 1980. Richard quali ed as abarrister and Sydney. The company was then bought out by ahostile takeover bid in 1985, so he and his family returned to Arizona. Once back in Arizona, he got ajob vrith the Coconino County Attorney’s Of ce in Flagstaff and served as aprosecutor for 10 years —credited with winning amajor multi-million dollar case on behalf of the state, and another case of worth nearly $1 million from adrug dealer. In 1995, he became head of the Civil Section and acts as general counsel for the County Board of Supervisors. In 1994, Rhoda suffered avery serious heart attack and had to move 250 miles away to Tucson, where the altitude was more acceptable for her health. Richard had to remain in Flagstaff to keep the family health insurance and visits Rhoda when possible. With the advent of the Health Insurance Port¬

ability Act, he is hoping to reunite his family, and perhaps move back to Australia, Meanwhile, son Stephen is attending the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison and just completed his junior year abroad in Freiburg, Germany. For those who would like to catch up with Richard and his family, his home phone is (520) 774-4085; his work number is (520) 779-6518; and his e-mail is rvihel@co.coconino.az.us.

Tim Davidson

9712 Hidden Valley Road Vienna, VA 22181-6094 (703) 255-5313/Work; (301) 299-1610 Fax: (703) 255-5377 E-mail; timd@erols.com Percent members; 66

HELLO ’68! Y2K is keeping your scribe’s household pretty busy between man¬

aging acouple of independent businesses; our 10-year old-daugbter Alicia’s school, sports, and dance schedule; and planning for the wedding of my 25-year-old Army

lieutenant, Scott, in Tallahassee this December. Lord, please provide the patience,

time management skUls, on-time ights, hotel reservations, and funds to make it to 2001! To change the subject completely, check out the Class of‘96’s Spring 2000 Checkpoints column to see arecent photo of Lee KELLEY. Lee, if you see this, how about sending me some info on what you’ve been doing for the last 30-t years.

CHRISTMAS MAILBAG CONTINUED DEPT: As mentioned in the spring col¬

umn, Iinformed you that one of our classmates was singing “Everything’s Com¬ ing Up Roses.” That classmate is none other than Mitch DORGER, who accepted the position as CEO of the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena last February. In addition to the annual Parade of Roses and Rose Bowl game, Mitch and Barb have

avery active social schedule that can only be described as decadently extrava¬ gant! Beyond the excitement of amove to the Pasadena area and afrantic social

calendar, Mitch and Barb celebrated the marriage of their son Scot to Sarah Bond

of Mobile, AL last May. It was atrue southern wedding, and I’ll bet some of the oral arrangements included the father of the groom’s favorite ower. (Scribe Note: Mitch and Barb, you need to provide us aphoto of you performing of cial duties on New Year’s Day 2001.)

Jim TERRY sent holiday greetings from Albuquerque and told of his daughter

Amanda’s wedding, which was held on 23 October. The newlyweds honeymooned in the British Virgin Islands and both are working at Science Applications Interna¬

tional Corporation in McLean, VA. Daughter Jenny is working toward her MS at

the Univ of New Mexico in biomedical sciences, while wife, Carolyn, teaches third

Wedding Photo #2: From left are Vince and Nancy Rusinak, daughter Vicki and

son-in-law Wes Caldwell, son Michael, and Nancy’s parents, Armand and Eleanor Berthiaume.

VinceandNancyRUSINAKcheckedinfromC-Springswiththisgreatphotoof their daughter Vicki’s wedding on 15 May 1999. Vince and Nancy remain busy 24x7x365 with Rusinak Real Estate. (Scribe Note: Check out their ad and contin¬

uedsupporttoCheckpoints.)Vickiworksinthefamilybusinessasrelocationdi¬

rector and Wes works for General Dynamics as acomputer software engineer. Son Michael lives in Jacksonville, FL and was promoted to regional manager with

RGIS Inventory Specialists. Congrats to all the Rusinaks! The next letter arrived at my e-mail address from Larry FUNK, another Basic Summer, Cougar Flight guy. Larry claims to have become abit of recluse, living in

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tennis, travel with Diana to California to visit our son who is alawyer and prac¬

the remote, mountain West snow countrj' north ofWhite sh, MT. As he said, "The area captured me 25 years ago when Ileft the Air Force and went wandering.” To keep the electricity turned on, he occasionally makes contact with some business

types in Silicon Valley, Austin, Phoenix, etc. and has acareer of sorts. He gets great satisfaction out of his remote environs and says he will keep going until the money runs out or he gets too old and stiff for the task. He mentioned running into afew of our gang over the years including Mike HEMBROUGH, Dave KOZAK, and Larry MAAHS. He said that Larry MAAHS is with Northwest Airlines and

ies out of

Minneapolis. If you would like to send some electrons Larry Funk's way, his e-mail is ljf@cyberport.net.

at high schools in the Los Angeles area and encourages Veta to learn her emer¬ gency procedures as she has just begun taking ying lessons. Since Tony was enroute to Tokyo and ying the right seat of his 747, Veta gra¬ ciously offered her observations about her husband and his ties to the Academy. Regarding the Academy, she said, “Tony felt like he had apretty good education in high school, but was amazed at how much he did not Imow when he entered the Academy. He told me many times that the Academy taught him how to study and how to survive during the most dif cult circumstances.” When asked about what life’s lesson Tony would probably like to pass on to the class, Veta said, “Tony really believes it is important to pass on what you have learned to others, regardlessofraceor circumstance. If you have the ability to heip and you see that some¬ one has the potential to do something with his or her life, you should lend ahand to help them get ahead, encourage them, and share what you know.” Thanks Veta, for helping us to honor one of our own.

TFIAT’S AWRAP DEPT: Until the next time, mind the ak, keep ‘em ying, and keep those cards, letters, e-mails, and photos coming in. Ciao for now, Tim

Lindsey Parris 6 0 3 7 R i c k e t t s Wa l k

Alexandria, VA 22312 Home: (703) 914-5608

E-mail: 102177.1033@compuserve.com Percent members: 65

September’s song. Start of the new year. Class of2004 matriculating and in the midst of the rst semester classes. Here goes. Easy to report the biggest recent news: our own John DALLAGER took over the

You Should'a Been There!" From left seated are Lisa Davidson and Jeanne Veteto. Standing: Benny Veteto, Alicia Davidson, and Scribe. CLASS MILLENIUM CRUISE DEPT: Do you recall the 30* Reunion at the Acad¬ emy? Do you recall all those who indicated that acruise in the Year 2000 would be

agreat idea and they wouldn’t miss it for the world? Well, for the great majority, you missed awonderful time away from it all with rst-rate entertainment, food, luxurious staterooms, and excursions to San Juan, St. Thomas, and St. Croix. Benny and Jeanne, thanks for organizing such afabulous vacation!

‘68

SPOTLIGHT

reins as Superintendent of USAFA in achange-of-command ceremony on 9June. John, previously Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations, Supreme Headquarters Al¬ lied Powers Europe, saw ahost of the men we boasted in the likes of Steve

EDELMAN, Brad DEAUSTJN, Dave WAGNER, Ray HAYGOOD, John BUCKNER, Gary BONE, Terry LUMME, John MARTJN, Ken JARVl, Ron HINDMARSH, Buddy HERRINGTON, Michael CARRIER, Gerry BOESCHE, BiU MAGILL, Ron USOWSKl, and Ron OLDS.

In a tting tribute to the class on John D’s day, Gary Bled the greytags in three rounds of Class of ‘69 “Hip, Hipping and Hooraying” for John. And, for the metaphysicists and numerologists among you: Steve points out the day John as¬ sumed command, 9June, is really 6/9 in drag. In addition, thanks to class of cer Steve, our class ag was incorporated into the day’s events, and John plans to display the ag in his of ce during his tenure as superintendent. Big things to come. Big class congrats to John.

‘‘The First Pilot and His Lady." From left are Veta and Tony Marshall.

The ’68 Spotlight for Summer 2000 shines on Tony MARSHALL. As Tony entered the Academy, he received nationwide attention, representing the introduction of minority students to the national service academies. As such, he was featured on the cover of Look Magazine circa 1965, in Ebony Magazineinjune 1966, and on the cover of the Chicago Times, Sunday Times, in June 1968. Upon graduation from USAFA, Tony went to Nav School at Mather and became aweapon systems of cer at MacDill AFB, FL and then Udorn AB, Thailand in the F-4. He was shot down in

1971, served as aPOW in Hanoi, and went to pilot training at Williams AFB after being repatriated in 1973. From there, he went on to y the F-4G, and had over¬ seas assignments to Bentwaters RAF, UK; Frankfurt, Germany; and Clark AB, PL

He nished his Air Force career in 1990 at George AFB, CA, picking up amaster’s

degree from Troy State along the way. Tony became apilot for United Airlines in 1990 and married his wife, Veta, on 9 May 1992. In his spare time, he serves as asubstitute math and/or Spanish teacher

From ‘‘getting out of this place to running it:" ‘69ers attend John Dallager's changeof-command ceremony Now for another John, he of the HOPPER variety! Nominated for his third star, John will soon assume new duties as the vice commander of Air Education and Training Command at Randolph. Looks like the class has cornered the market

on making Air Force men and women smarter and better trained! The jobs have never been in better hands. Onward and upward, John! Huge congrats. Other big news for class Johns comes from John WARNER, co-founder and presi¬ dent of Applied Recovery Technology, acompany working in an area of micro¬ chemistry to produce membranes and chemicai applications that control the rates and byproducts of chemical reactions. One day, the lines in your soft drink vending machine, the sterilization of those medieval weapons dentists stick in your mouth, and the cleaned oil that cooked your Biggie Fries may have a‘69er i m p r i m a t u r.

So we have John DALLAGER taking the class full cycle from wanting to “get out of this place” all the way to running it. And John HOPPER returning to ajob with an educational avor. Now here’s another ‘69 John giving entirely new meaning to keeping the pipes clean. Strange times... Ahhhh... to do it all again. As Doug FITZPATRICK offers: “The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.” This to John D

Two Tonys and aCharlie: Charlie Coolidge’s promotion to Lt Gen at Scott APB." From ieftare Charlie, Tony Marshall, and Tony Robertson.

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from Doug: “I know where the bodies are buried, including the infamous politically-incorrect 8th Squadron beer stein.” Other huge news: Tim MASON and Barbara Knapp Bremer tied the knot. 24 June, Waccabuc, NY. As of this writing, Icannot report how many ‘69ers made the trip to share in Tim and Barbara’s joy, the culmination of the class’s longest courtship, but all the ‘69ers were with you in thought. Pictures to follow next

God bless.

Guy GARDNER is as busy as ever. As you know, he left the FAA nearly two years ago to travel the country speaking about science to school kids. After two years of road travel, he decided to return to grad school (Virginia Tech) to certify himself for teaching middle and high school math and science. Still doing some occa¬ sional consulting and speaking, he has been teaching math, geometry, and phys¬ ics at the top technical high school in the metropolitan D.C. area as well as help¬ ing the learning disabled with basic math. Guy passed along that Bill MCNAUGHT is living in D.C., midway between Guy and me, and is working analysis and eco¬ nomic issues for the Government Accounting Of ce. Gobi DESSERT has stored his wet-weather gear and headed down to Tennessee.

He was tired of being an on-strike Boeing engineer and is tickled at being em¬ ployed gainfully in the East.

CJ WAX is relocating from his job as director. Plans and Policy at 1-5, HQ US European Command to the commander of the Army and Air Force Exchange Ser¬ vice in Dallas. No doubt your PXs will have better quality and service than ever, now that Cl is in the saddle.

Ray KILE, now lured back to his former employer, the Center for Systems Man¬ agement, is traveling betwixt Denver and D.C. Ray directs the software process

improvement business area for his growing, full-service software consulting com¬

Doug “His own Self’ MANG: Obvious intellect of group. Also, about to rhage due to strain of holding in stomach for the 10 seconds it took to s picture Clay BAILEY: Tried to run. Pretended he was in Class of ‘68 to avoid being in this picture. Had astill-promising career until now. Bugs FORSYTHE: Captains 777 for United one day amonth and loans money to

Bill Gates on paydays. Almost arrested for impersonating an AF reserve BG. George DEFILLIPPI: Has dreamed of standing between Bugs and Barry for a photo op since Hell Week. However, wiser now, disguised himself as Van Gogh (only with the ear) to escape recognition by his bosses at Litton.

Barry CREIGHTON: Jumped in picture while wandering by. Also in pictures of classes of ‘62 through ‘79. Past appearances as amember of the Warren Commis¬ sion and in a1973 Phillies team photo. Probably the only ex-of cio member of the Ryder Cup shown here.

PK CARLTON: While PK was within earshot, everyone spoke of their sterling health (tanned, t, and ready to freddy) and described the TRICARE system in loving, even reverential, terms. Obvious ploys to avoid impromptu prostate checks (see KECK, above).

Bill DALECKY: Still looks 21. Uses moisturizers. Works for Boeing, but can’t nd anyone who knows exactly what he does. Bill isn’t sure either—betting the job is like MUELLER’S but without the golf. Had enough? “Uncle?” Doesn’t matter, as Tm over the space limit, so must say ‘Happy Trails” for now. All good wishes and cheer to all of you. Lindsey

pany. Apoem about the tragedy at Columbine High School written by his wife, Katy, is now enshrined in apermanent place at the school. Some other news,

Dick Rauschkolb

courtesy of Guy G: Tom KECK, 8th AF commander, received Aviation Week’s “Aero¬ space Laureate” recognition last month. And, Charlie BALDWIN was inducted into the 85th Heritage Hall, where he went through UPT. In April, Frank MOORE retired from his position as deputy director of the De¬

Colorado Springs, CO 80921 Home: (719)487-0887 Work: (719) 472-0300/DSN: 333-2067

fense Threat Reduction Agency to assume aposition as vice president at Northrop

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Grumman. He and Carol -who was exible as long as their new digs were situ¬ ated south of Interstate 10 -live in Melbourne, FL, thus demonstrating Frank’s ability to work within the feasible region of any linear programming problem, even the toughest ones. Pictured in the retirement photo are Bob SUTTER, Tim

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14640 River Oaks Drive

By the time you read this, the Reunion will be right around the corner! Hard to believe 30 years have passed since the Class of Seventy left the sterile con nes of

MUELLER, Jeff GRIME (who Iunderstand is now working with...), Don

the Blue Zoo. Several men marked our anniversary on 3June. John DISOSWAY

RAKESTRAW Frank, Bart TUCKER, Jimmy PETEK, and Tim COURINGTON. Frank and Carol would love to hear from any of you heading to Ron John’s double-decker Surf Shop -or even if you visit the Melbourne area for other reasons. Kudos to Frank for his long and distinguished blue-suit service.

and Darrel MASSEY toasted the class in Madison, GA. Greg “Wild Wood” WOODHEAD, Oker O’CONNOR, George KEYS, and Willie SCHEPENS had some Tex-Mex and several brewskies while celebrating our graduation day in Washing¬ ton DC. Willie was in town from Wichita Falls where he is doing consulting work. Class of ’04 checked into USAFA yesterday—does that make you feel old or what? Hard to believe we were ever that young! Several classmates have offspring in the new class. Bill BENEDICT and Brendan O’SULLIVAN have boys (Connor and Luke) who will be joining Joe YORK’S son Christopher as amember of the Class of 2004. You men should be proud —Ihad achance to meet all of these ne young men and Ican assure you the country will be in good hands with great young people

like this coming iong.

Football season is upon us! Falcons will have their work cut out for them this year.

Other than the opening game, there are no patsies on the schedule. Army, Navy and Notre Dame highlight the non-conference schedule. As usual, BYU promises to be the class of the MWC. We play the Cougars early in the season (9 Sep) which may be

to our advantage. Your scribe’s prediction is 8-3 or 7-4 if everyone stays healthy. If injuries creep in, it could be along season. With the Class of ’70 rooting the team to

victory over Navy at the Reunion and Army in arebuilding year with anew coach— Ralph FREEMAN has left the friendly city of Houston, moving east to high-tech Austin, where he is the senior vice president and chief information of cer for ConnectSouth, an internet/DSL facilities-based carrier, Ralph, who loves “start¬

ups,” and ConnectSouth can “E-Enable” your business, and hopes to be in 41 markets by December. Also from “deep in the heart of,” Wild Bill HANEY has sold his home in San Marcos, and the gist of his note suggests he now resides in dear old C-Springs. Hard to imagine Bill living anywhere but Texas. Guess the Springs will just have to change its ways. As previously reported, Robin HANSON decided to return to the airlines after a 21-year hiatus from the cockpit. Hopes to stay busy until he is 60! He is trying to get on with Air Wisconsin (United Express) to get based in Denver. He hopes to

the mighty Falcons will retain the Commander-in -Chiefs Trophy! We had agreat sendoff for Harry SANDS on 16 June. Terry and Sharon DESSERT ew in from Florida and Chuck WEIR drove up from Arizona. Tooey EMERY, Dave GAW, Henry MITCHELL, Mark EWIG, Tony MARIETTA, Rich DOWNING, Ray BARLEBEN Cookie VILLAREAL, Mike TORREANO, Bob MCKINNEY, and Jack

MUELLER were in attendance. It was an emotional day, but Nancy and Harry’s

great sons, Mike and Steve, deeply appreciated the support from Harry’s classmates.

attend aFAC reunion to be held at Hurlburt in September.

Now, as promised (or threatened) last time, here is the photo of ‘69ers taken on 25 Feb at the AFA’s air warfare symposium in Orlando. Doug MANG sent this

along, and provided brief snippets, which Ipass along to you with some minor adds and deletes and some major trepidation!

70 sends Harry off in style. Back row from left: Mark Ewig, Rich Downing and Bob McKinney. Front Row: Ray Barleben, Tooey Emery, Dave Gaw, Tony Marietta, Cookie Villareal, Chuck Weir, Dick Rauschkolb and Terry Dessert Tim MUELLER: Northrop Grumman pays him to play golf with AF generals. Also gets paid to eat lunch with AF generals. Does his job very welt. Only ‘69er in picture actually dressed for work (note Tim is out of uniform at Frank’s retirement ceremony).

Tom KECK: Way too nice to be athree-star. Standing almost as far away from PK as possible (note exaggerated smile, and see below).

Class of 1970 -30th Reunion USAFA vs. Navy 4-8 October 2000

issue! They will settle in Carbondale, CO, so if you are in the area call or stop in at Tim’s place, the Glenwood Springs Brewing Company, for abite and abrew. Tim, the entire class and especially your old Group One track buddies, salute you. May

Humble apologies to Tony and Val MARIETTA! Seems your friendly scribe spelled their daughter Sarah's name wrong and called her asoccer player (she is an ace in volleyball) in the last issue. Never offend an “old” scribe! Jim BECHTEL claims he introduced Sue and John VERARDO, not me. We will need the Verardos to sort this

out at the Reunion—we have adrink riding on the outcome! Heard from many classmates the last few months. Duff SMILEY stopped by for achat. He works in the Vehicle Concepts Development Design Center for General Motors. It was good to see him and catch up on old times. Jake HOLMES searched the Internet and found several of our "lost souls”—John ALLEN, Curt MARONEY,

and Bill STANLAND. Jake indicated Delta pilots Ron JONES, Jim RIDDICK, Chris CLARK, and Jim SHAW are planning to attend the Reunion. Thanks for nding some of our classmates Jake! Hope some of the rest of you will make an effort to do

nd that long-lost roommate on the Internet. Rick WADE sends his best wishes

to the Class —he is really glad we tracked him down and vows to attend his rst Reunion in Oct. Steve BRAUD checked in from New Orleans. He claims golf is interfering with his work. He is trying to change his court dates to make it to COS in Oct. Itrust that means you are working and not appearing in court Steve! Saw Jay TOBIN at the Founders Day dinner. Jay has left the good life in Steamboat Springs to ght the hustle and bustle of Denver. Jack NORMAN had afreak acci¬

dent at home, hut should be back in the cockpit when you read this. Tom “Ratzo” RANDAZZA sent an e-mail telling me about the origins of 38* Squadron’s nickname—the All Stars. It seems the squadron came in last in Honor

Squadron competition and the DoDo staff thought that merited "All Star” recog¬ nition. Actually, there is more to the story, hut this sounds hetter. Tom can ll you in over adrink at the Reunion —he’s buying! Bill KIRKMAN recently started a new consulting job here in the Springs, He gave me Dave and Ruth RADCLIFF’s email address. Contact with Dave indicated they are enjoying life in Malaysia while Dave works for Exxon. He said his golf game is suffering—no surprise there—he wasn’t very good when we were Lts at Cannon!

Chuck REED, Bob DRABANT and Don RUSHING provided some insights to my daughter’s company in Germany on starting an Internet company in California. All men are attorneys in the Golden Bear State. Chuck is running for city council — rst step to being the next governor! Speaking of running for of ce —John MITCHEL is running for Congress in Ohio on the Reform Party ticket. John has a ’71 ‘Vette and is offering asilver dollar to the top three people who come closest to its invoice price at Williams Chevrolet back in the dark ages when ‘Vettes were in. Logyour guesses at www.reformcongress.com. Ithink John should give the ‘Vette away at adrawing —bet he would have lots of interest in his campaign by his classmates! Good luck to John and Chuck—we need’70 men in high places! Joe MCCLELLAND and Missy were in COS, but our schedules didn’t mesh —my fault

“There’s this guy named Tiger.. Iam sure there were lots of retirements in June —heard about afew of them.

Phil MEILINGER(Barbara) left Naval War College for amufti job at SAIC in Tyson’s corner. He is looking forward to “thinking and writing” about airpower. Chuck WHITECHURCH and Oker O’CONNOR retired in the Pentagon -our own fourstar Greg MARTIN retired the Oakman! Wild Wood and Chip TERRILL ended the

ceremony with the slash 'em with abeak and rip ’em with aclaw cheer. Mike BROWER sent the prx of Chuck’s retirement below. A'94 grad sent me anice ar¬ ticle from the base paper on Steve CONNELLY’S retirement at Hurlburt. Steve had

amost impressive career in Special Ops, Steve MACISAAC didn’t have his cer¬ emony until 30 June —claims he was the last one to go out with 30 years. Seventy was well represented at Rich DOWNING’S rst class retirement ceremony at Doolittle Hall. Nancy and Rich really did it up right.

roomie, will do better next time! Heard from Bob MCBRIDE —he is the CFO for a

golf Internet company —Golf Club of the Internet —www.golfcluboftheinternet .com. Bob has agreat concept going which may allow us to have some competi¬ tive golf tournaments as aclass —even though we will be playing different courses—sounds neat.

Just learned Don BOWERS was killed in aCessna 185 crash in Alaska. A‘66 grad sent me some articles from the Anchorage paper about Don. Seems Don was quite the folk hero up there. Flew for the Iditarod Air Force (which gave him a y¬ by) and raced in the Iditarod for several years. He wrote abook about his experi¬ ences on the trail, which received rave reviews. We will miss you Don. Spent the evening before Harry’s service with Terry and Sharon DESSERT. Con¬ sumed too much wine and laughed too hard —but it was good practice for the Reunion! Saw apicture of Terry's 31 -foot cabin cmiser with Dusty SWANSON at the helm. Terry said the photo was taken right before SWANSON ran it into the dock. Terry said it reminded him of the Titanic hitting an iceberg. Reminds me of the time Dusty and Iwrecked Dusty’s dad’s car at Giuseppe’s East the night before Col Swanson was to go on vacation. We were popular dudes with Dusty’s parents for years after. Chuck WEIR and Iteed it up when he was here for Harry’s funeral. Those lessons we got Chuck to take were awaste of money. I’ve got abetter swing on my porch. Nevertheless, Chuck was awesome with his putter as this picture attests.

'70 Men Honor Rich's 30 Years of Service. From leftin the back row are Dave Smith and Larry Vaughn. Middle Row: Mike Torreano, Dave Gaw, Rich Downing, The Phantom, and Mark Ewig. Front row: Mike Pomphrey and Henry Mitchell.

Classmates congratulate Chuck Whitechurch on a30-year career. From left are Dave Sterling, Jim Andrews, Chuck Whitechurch, Doug Carlson and Mike Brower. FOUND: Big A1 SIMONCIC checked in —seems rumors of his demise were

greatly exaggerated. He and wife, Judy, are teaching in our overseas school sys¬ tem in beautiful Heidleberg. Rough duty if you can get it! A1 said his golf game isn’t up to its potential —sounds like Tiger after he won the Open by 15 stokes! REUNION NEWS: By the time you read this Ihope you have registered for the big event. Schedules are out and due to the hardwork oftheAOGandthemenon your Reunion Committee under the superb leadership of Tooey EMERY and Rich Weir Bombs Another One!

Seems Mike KELLEY, Jim COOPER, Mark BEAN, Ed RASHID and other former

Falcon hoopsters from our era threw asurprise weekend for Gregg POPOVICH in San Antonio. Between telling war stories and consuming adult beverages, they managed to get in some golf and watch Popo’s Spurs trounce Utah. Watching the tape of the USAFA-USNA BB game of ’68 (we won 73-48) made the boys yearn for yesteryear. Actually, they just yearned to t into their old Falcon uniforms. Jim BARRALL (Mitzi) gets the "Ponce DeLeon Award”. Seems one James Paul Barrall entered the world recently. Proud dad already has him lined up to be a member of the Class of 2020—50 years after we graduated! Jim, whatever you are drinking, bottle it and bring it to the Reunion. You could be amillionaire by 8Oct!

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DOWNING, you should have agreat time. Regarding golf —please set up your foursomes before you arrive and list them on your registration sheet. E-mail them to me if you have already sent in the registration form without this info. We also need an accurate handicap for all your players on your registration sheet. Price of golf does include agreat lunch. Unfortunately, if you stay for lunch you will prob¬ ably miss some of the Academy senior staff brie ngs Friday afternoon. Just a heads-up —cost will be the same whether you attend lunch or not. Check out last minute info about the Reunion on the AOG web site and our class web site which is linked to the AOG site.

CLASS GIFT: Know you have received mailings regarding our plans for aClass

Gift. Gary DAHLEN, Greg GILLES, and Mike TORREANO are doing asuper job developing this project. This is an ambitious undertaking which will greatly ben-

Enough said!

VOLUNTEERS: Last year tor its Reunion, ’69 had aunique group of people write about their perceptions of the event. Would like to ask a rst-time attendee (gradu¬ ate and spouse), aspouse, and acadet son or daughter to write atew paragraphs for an article in the next Checkpoints. If you are interested, e-mail me soon. The bad n e w s you would have to get the article into me within aweek of the Reunion. The same deadline applies for people who want me to use their Reunion pictures. Trivia: Chip TERRILL correctly identi ed Kirby VANHORN as the man behind blasting the song Hair across the Terrazzo during the noon meal formation while we were enduring ahaircut inspection! It was great seeing all the AOCs scram¬ bling around trying to gure out what the !$*& was going on! Which one of our classmates was the co-captain of an Olympic Team? If he is reading this —be at the Reunion!

Joe ZAVADA had agreat suggestion: “May Isuggest to you and maybe to the AOG, that an electronic repository be established for each class so that they can deposit information about themselves and other classmates. The repository could then be

accessed by all to see what is going on.” Ithink that we could start by following Mark SIEVER’s suggestion of aclass web site. There are about ahundred thousand companies offering to help set up sites, it seems; any of you have suggestions?

By the time you read these words, it will be less than ayear until our 30th anni¬ versary. Tom CALLEN mentioned the paver project. Inow present aslightly big¬ ger suggestion via Bob LOWE: “There is amovement afoot to get an SR-71 to the Academy. This airplane means alot to our class and is being retired just like most of the war-horses from the Class of 71. Perhaps we could collect money to pro¬ vide amaintenance endowment to preserve the aircraft or help mount it” To ex¬

pand brie y, several Blackbirds are available from depot, and USAFA has at least as good achance of getting one as any other base. Imagine being able to present the Academy with an endowment to maintain such avisible example of Ameri¬ can aeronautical genius so close to the next Air Force generations. Any comments? My organizational skills are at least an order of magnitude below what we'd need to get this project happening, but whatever Ican do to help. I’ll do. That’s about it for this quarter. Let’s hope that the next issue will have lots of items about promotions, graduations, weddings, and lotto winners. Later. Bob Bell 1 3 P a c i c Av e .

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Seventy’s nest pay tribute to Oker's Air Force career! From left in the front row are GregWoodhead, Jim Andrews, Dick O’Connor, Speedy Martin, RayMcKelvy, Chip

Terrill and Tome Walters. In the second row are Tim Carey, Chris Johnson, Andy Paton, Doug Norton and Ron Kelly. Will close with this last-minute picture Ireceived of Oker’s retirement ceremony. That's it ’70 —see you in October —BEAT NAVY!

Hello again class of ’72 as we reach the end of summer and another scal/school

yearbeginning(asyoureadthis).Gotsomegreatresponsestothelast“column”

with nine of you sending e-mails as well as areal letter. This kind of input sure helps the writer when you give me something to pass on instead of just winging it myself. So let’s get started.

Lee (Mariel) RODGERS leads it off with news from Scott AFB, reporting the good

news that three '72ers there were selected for 0-8 (let’s see now, that would be

MGEN, right?). Dean (Sallie) FOXis the AMC/CE and Chuck (Marilee) JOHNSON

Paul D. Knott

just left his post as AMC/XP to be the Tinker Center commander. Lee himself

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takes off from his AMC/SG position to be the commander of the 59“' Medical Wing

Colorado Springs, CO 80915 Home:(719) 570-9162 Work (719) 594-0100 E-mail: pknott@acninc.net

at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland, Lee pinned on his second star and was

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passing through Colorado Springs, so David and Sue Wagie hosted asmall gettogether at their home to celebrate the occasion. Aband of local ’72 desperados joined the festivities at Wagie’s home for great Mexican food, beer and margaritas. Congrats to each of you and thank you for the info, Lee.

One of the sad duties of the class column is having to let you know when aclass¬

mate passes away. This issue will mention two. John W. JONES III died in Santa Barbara, CA on May 4. Evans WHALEY had aheart attack while ying aprivate

plane and crashed on May 23. Many of you have written concerning Evans, and I forwarded as many of them as Icould. Ralph GETCHELL had achance to go to a memorial service for Evans, and reported this: “Took ashort drive up to Birming¬

ham, AL, this morning to attend Evans Whaley’s memorial service. Was held in a ‘135 phase barn with about 700 troops from the wing. Kirk TYREE, with alittle help from three or four GOs in attendance, did areal nice job, although it was

obvious this has been atough time for him. Guess ve or six of our classmates

made it up for the funeral acouple of weeks ago, so we collectively had achance to pass our condolences to the family on behalf of the class. In his eulogy, Kirk said Evans made apoint to pass on to ATC that there was no problem with the airplane whatsoever because he didn’t want the FAA or anyone else pointing a nger at the major. Aclass act in one’s nal minutes. Kirk has been named to succeed Evans as wing king. From my brief observations of Kirk in action (I hadn’t seen him since graduation). I’m sure the wing is in good hands.” Bill KUBIDA took on the responsibilities of helping Jemie and the boys during

the tough times after the crash. Ilike to think that any of us would help if we could. Kubs could and did. He mentioned that Bob PARKER, Rich SHANNON,

John BIERE, Denny EHLERS, Vern FRANCIS and Jeff FARSHMAN came down for the funeral.

I’m sure that there will be more in this issue about Evans, so Ijust want to cover

one good thing that came out in our response to this tragedy. Cass CASADA sug¬ gested that Iuse the AOG to broadcast the news to as many of you as have let the AOG know what your e-mail address is. Idid, and in seconds, about 230 of us had the noti cation. If you have an e-mail address and you did not hear from me, please let the AOG know your new or updated e-dress. (New word courtesy of Ron RAND.) On to more positive news. Tom BERRY had bypass surgery in May and at last report, is doing really well.

Classmate Sightings: Andrea and Ihad the opportunity to have supper with Andy and Trudi CERONI acouple of months ago. What an interesting life he 's had! Not only was he on the staff of the commander of SAC, but he underwent experi¬ mental surgery that probably saved his life. (Not in the line of duty, of course!) This was amemorable evening, which we hope to repeat soon.

Recently, Iwas at work and saw a gure in a ight suit get out of acar in the parking lot and head our way. When Iput on my glasses, 1recognized Harry “Jay” DAVIS. He and Cindy are getting ready to build their dream house just south of Monument, on land he bought our senior year. Jay is the Director, Plans &Pro¬

grams, for the Academy. In this prestigious position, he has risen to the capacity of being quotable. During graduation week, alocal television station used him for an on-air sound bite.

Our class author, Darryl WIMBERLY, has his second book out, and is working on his third and forth. With luck, he and Doris should be in town for publicity in the fall.

At the Wagie gathering for Lee Rodgers are, from top left are Dave Wagie (Sue), Lee

Rodgers (Mariel), Brian Binn (Barbara), and Don MacNiven (Karen). In the next r

are Dave Bowman (Jennifer), Bob Waller (Susan). Doug Brower (Cheryl), and

Dee Airman (Karen).

Next in the e-mail queue was Bruce (Jan) HOSEA telling that he had gone to Hank (Sandra) MASON’S retirement at Warner Robins AFB, GA the end of April.

Hank then made it out to Bruce’s retirement in Albuquerque, NM in mid-May.

Hank is the new vice-president of Adroit Systems, Inc., acontracting rm. Bruce

ispresidentandCEOofJ&BFinancialServices,Inc.,aventurecapital rm.Thanlcs for the update, Bruce and good luck in your retirement ventures, guys.

Harvey(Diane)LEGATOtriedmyever-troublesomecyberaddresstwiceandI did nallygetthenewsonour“spaceMa a”wherehesaysthatgoingtoaGeneral Of cerSteeringGroup(GOSG)isalmostaClassReunion.MGENBill(Marilyn)

LOONEY’S last billet was as the HQ AFSPACECOM/DO but he recently took on the reins of command forVandenbergAFB, CA’s 14“'AF (AFSPACECOM NAF). BGEN Mike (Linda) HAMEL is HQ SPACECOM /DR (Requirements). BGEN Mike (Bobbie) DRENNAN will apparently be retiring soon as commander, 2P' Space Wing (Peterson/Cheyenne Mountain AFB, CO). BGEN Craig (Doris) WESTON is/was the AF Procurement Executive Of cer (PEO) for Command and Control Systems,

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e t the Academy and provide alasting legacy to future generations of cadets.

Brian (Barbara) BINN, Dave (Jennifer) BOWMAN, and George (Mary) POLLARD. Aspecial treat for the ‘72 table was that they were joined by LGen Albert Clark,

NE, And nally, after you’ve heard about all that brass at the top, I’ll quote Bmce himself -"I’m just adefense contractor supporting HQ AFSPACECOM.” Isure do appreciate all the class info Bruce -keep it coming whenever you have achance! Bernie (Rosalind) BARRIS is pretty happy about having retired last April 27* evi¬ denced by the fact that he was able to send anice e-mail reminiscing on aspects of it that might be considered pretty typical of many of us who have enjoyed a

USAFA superintendent from 1970-1974. Craig (Doris) WESTON became the most recent member of athe Class of ‘72 to

great post-Academy Air Force career (active as well as Guard or Reserve). His last

advocates and benefactors having adirect interest and motivation to advance its

tour of duty was with the Air Intelligence Agency (AIA) at Kelly AFB ’sSecurity Hill complex nishing up the last eight years with an Intel AFSC. Bernie had been through afun- lled time all through the 28 years and 24 days since commission¬ ing what with hurricane hunting, typhoon chasing and atmospheric sampling. Add to that the challenge of staff positions at Rescue Service, 23"* AF, HQ MAC and chief of the Joint Reconnaissance Center at SOUTHCOM and duty as executive of cer to the J3 at SOUTHCOM just prior to the AIA tour. While there, he was in charge of all contingency support as well as bringing Information Operations to the Air Force and nally the opportunity to command the RC-135 Rivet Joint squad¬ ron in the desert. Present to join in the celebration for Bernie’s retirement were Jim and Cyndi POWELS, visiting from their new home on Lake Conroe in Mont¬ gomery, TX. Jim is still a737 captain with Continental Airlines based in Houston. Bernie got achance to spend some time TOY to Hickam in March for aDefensive Counterinformation Conference, but better yet was able to join 23-year-old son Brian for ashort time (Brian is starting his third year in aPhD program at Uof Hin Astronomy). Back in San Antonio, Roz is enjoying work as acounselor at the Alter¬ native High School and there are still two daughters attending Texas A&M-so Bernie will be catching up on all those “honey dos” and putting out some resumes. It’s good to hear from you, Bernie—you sound like one happy camper!

goals, plans and programs with aminimum contribution of $1,000 per year. Further news is that Col Mark (Linda) MAYER will be PCSing from Chile to join the Spanish Department at USAFA. We also are only two years away from our 30year reunion -Charlie (Sheila) HARRINGTON is the class rep putting it all to¬ gether with hopefully alot of help from the rest of us. The class gift fundraising effort is already underway and you should have heard of it by now, with hopes that we will have it complete prior to the reunion. That will prevent any monetary pleas distracting from the fun times to come at reunion time, right? More to fol¬

join the AOG Sabre Society. This special group also includes Richard (Pamela) BARR, Lee (Mary) KRAUTH, David (DuAnn) PETERSON, Ronald (Jo Nell) QUINTON and Steve (Carol) TILLMAN. These generous folks have made the com¬

mitment to join many others in support of the Sabre Society as acore cadre of

low on Year 30 events in future issues.

Pat (Robbin) ROONEY sends his message from acomputer somewhere near

Lakeland, TN (about 20 nm ENE of Memphis) where they have already celebrated their rst anniversary. Pat ies very quiet, box-shaped passengers late at night with afew hundred other grads and quite afew from ’72 doing duty for Fed Ex. He’s an A-300 captain doing the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Europe -not having to commute at all. Thanks for your contact, Pat! MGen Mike (Pam) DUNN writes from Korea where he is the deputy chief of staff, UN Command and U.S. Forces Korea at Yongsan Army Installation in Seoul. Recent departures from our class at his command were MGen (Sel) Bob (Mary) DIERKER who what the 51"' FW commander. Bob is now the DO at SHAPE in

Mons, Belgium working for Gen Ralston. Steve (Jeanne) PETERSON retired in front of aU-2 at Osan with Mike doing the honors for Steve. He was the former Air and Defense Attache in Seoul. In the spirit of following in Steve’s footsteps, his rst son, Gavin, graduated this year from USMA and joined the Air Force, while second son Sean just nished his rst year at USAFA. Mike recently attended the graduation from MIT in Cambridge, MA of his son Blair. Ironically, at the same event were BGen Paul (Dotty) NIELSEN and family for their son Eric. Paul commands all Air Force Labs and resides at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Paul reminded Mike of the fact that we had graduated 28 years ago, and that he and Mike had sat right next to each other for that event -and here they were, watching both their own sons graduate from the same university 28 years later. Small world, isn’t it! Cheers to you, Mike and thanks for the news. Rob (Carol) GOCKE reports his successful retirement in 1996 at Wright-Pat fol¬ lowed closely by work for Ball Corporation managing the local Contracts of ce in Dayton. In 1998, he moved to their Aerospace Division HQ in Boulder, CO where he currently works. Classmate Clint (Terry) ASBURY is the manager of contracts jim Powels and his lovely wife of 28 years, Cyndi join retiring LtCol Bernie Barris

with radiant (and happy) wife of27 years, Roz (Rosalind), at the celebration of that retirement.

Jim (Linda) PUTNAM wrote areal letter (with astamp and everything! —an¬

other victim of failed attempts at reaching my ever-troublesome e-mail address -

just keep trying folks!) to update the class on recent happenings at his end of the world. Jim was of cially off the payroll as of 31 Dec 99, retiring as the IG at Tinker AFB, OK as he nished out atotal of 27 years, 6months and 24 days (but who’s

counting, right?) Tom and Lynn MILLER and Craig (Doris) WESTON came for the ceremony on 5Nov, Tom having retired about ayear earlier. By the way, the three

working from the Dayton of ce -all those years ago at adoolie year spring break, Rob and Clint had rst met. Seems to be just alittle ashback action going on

here, wouldn't you say? Rob, thanks for your e-mail -we did have at least BCT if not doolie year in 19 together, just hard to remember exactly which anymore... Well, class, that is the sum total of what Ihave for this edition, so let’s go with it and put it on the presses. Hope to hear again from you for next time, so start gathering your news items early! Dan O’ Hollaren

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of these guys were doolies together and part of the initial cadre for something brand new in 1968 known as 31“ Squadron (Grim Reapers) in the “Neugh Dorm’’. So now Jim has decided to sell out and join the dreaded military-industrial plex as alogistician for Northrop Grumman on the Palmdale, CA-based B-2 pro¬

West Linn OR 97068

gram. He has already seen the way the Navy does things with arecent tour on the

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F/A-18 Super Hornet program at the El Segundo factory right next to LAX. (Ain’t L.A. traf c just grand?) Plus it is just like you never left the military what with all the retirees at the helm around there. Jim wants you to call him at home anytime that you might be in the area (615-254-2083). Many thanks for the update, Jim and enjoy yourself in those retirement years, O! An e-mail from Jennifer BOWMAN, wife of Dave, includes word of the latest

Founder’s Day event at the AOG. The event occurred on 8April with adinner at Doolittle Hall with the Class of ‘72 represented by BGen Dave (Sue) WAGIE, Col

Home: (503) 657-0299 Work: (503) 667-8554 E-mail: danoh73@home.com

Greetings, Silver-Tagged ‘73ers! As Iwrite this epistle, summer is just begin¬ ning. As you read it, summer will be ending and autumn beginning. Ah, football season is upon us, always full of promise at this time of year. Go Falcons! So, what bottles have washed upon my shore, carrying news of the Class of ‘73?

Two types always intrigue me: classmates offering advice, and women seeking

classmates. First, let’s talk about advice I've been given. Bill HEELY writes to offer assistance on the problem of rusting found in the Northwest inhabitants. (For the

three of you who actually read my last column, 1made reference to this phenom¬ enon.) Seems he has cousins in Oregon who advises one ounce ofWD-40 aday

prevents this condition. I'll try it. Bill also brings us up to date on his action. JWFCsupported exercises took him to Japan in February, Kuwait in April and Thailand in May. He wants to stay in touch with the old classmates and pass on kudos to those in the astral zone as he jaunts around the globe. Bill’s e-mail address -as are

all that send me theirs -is updated in the class web site masterfully maintained by Ed PREBLE.

More advice. Steve DIEHL wrote with aburr that’s obviously been under his saddle for awhile. Seems our own Class Web Page has been misspelling words re¬

peatedly in one of the recurring columns. Steve, take comfort in knowing that I

have forwarded your concern to Ed and he's all over it. Steve writes that he’s back in the AF Reserve as an IMA. He’s doing the radiology gig assigned to Malcolm Grow Medical Center at Andrews AFB. He likes getting mail addressed to ‘Colonel’ DIEHL, so take that as ahint and send him lots of useless dribbles but with the correct address!

Now, about those women seeking classmates. I’ve said this before, but it bears

repeating: where were these women when we were cadets? Does this prove the USAFA Dean BGen Dave Wagie and classmate Dave Bowman appear here to be deeply involved in conversation at the April 8"' annual Founders Day event.

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but should soon be PCS to the National Reconnaissance Of ce (NRO). BGEN Tom (Kim) O'RIORDAN has the position of USC1NCSTRAT/J3 (Operations) at Offutt AFB,

adage that we are, in fact, not getting older as we rst thought, but are, in fact, getting better? Ithink so. Anyway, seems someone is desperately seeking Tom GRAYSON this month. Ithink Ihave been successful in at least getting her con-

nected with him... old friend from the cadet days. Thanks to Alan KINBACK and Stalker REED for helping meoutonthlsone.SoundsllkeTomisinPhoenix ying left seat on an Airbus for America West. He and spouse, Debbie, have three sons,

Academy ag! Michael is now athirdclassman at AFA. He may stiU be in CS-04. 1 think they change after 3'“ class year. Jim, what aclimb that must have been! I’m happy for you. Does your home in Coraopolis, PA have any other challenges?

one of whom is adoolie with Joe KAHOE’s son. Also got e-mail from Dennis RENSEL’s bride, Kim. Fortunately, she isn’t looking for him. Just was looking for some amusing anecdotes from the past about Dennis to adequately roast him at his celebration for managing to stick around for half acentury. Sounds like they

were married after Dennis retired. Ihope the APB Ed PREBLE and Isent out yielded s o m e f e e d b a c k f o r h e r.

All right, let’s dive right into the potpourri mail since the last issue. Steve TRENT says hello to all of his classmates from 19“' squadron. Steve’s currently on the fac¬ ulty for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, teaching family practice residents. His “beautiful lady” bride, who he met on our ZI Field Trip 3'“ Class summer, is the mother of their four children. Great story, Steve! Tom KENNEDY’S update has him back with the DOD after his retirement in 1996. Tom’s amaterials engineer at the Defense Supply Research Center Richmond (DSCR, for those of you in to FLAs) in Virginia. Johnny WHITAKER, wearing eagles. Is the deputy di¬ rector of Public Affairs for the Air Force, working from a“lovely suite" of of ces in the Pentagon. He and wife, Nancy, have been wedded for 22 years. Their son Nick is asenior at that Aggie school and Jonathan’s one year behind at Mississippi State. And to put things in total perspective so we can all understand, he has two cats, four motor vehicles, and amortgage he can’t afford. This real life episode is hap¬ pening in Woodbridge, VA. Hang in there, Johnny. Keith HITZEMAN and Don SEILER wrote to update their e-mail addresses. Looks like Keith’s working for Pa¬ ci c Bell from the address. See the Class Website for all updated e-mail addresses. Also, Cary CLOVICKO caUed to update me on his status. Until recently, Cary was in the Springs doing his thing. He is now in Tucson, and promised to send me an update on all his comings and goings. Ed PREBLE updated the excitement in his life. He recently applied for and was accepted as the registrar at the New Mexico Military Institute, starting in July. His previous work at NMMI with the honor and ethics programs grew into also running the etiquette and entertainment programs (you guys remember Cadet Decorum with Mrs. Mac, right?). Too much work left no home time for Ed. In his spare time, he also managed to run the 12* annual Bataan Death March Memorial Marathon in White Sands, placing second as ateam. The highlight was meeting two survivors as he crossed the nish line. (My highlight would have been crossing the nish line!). He also thought BUI SWAN was running aBed &Breakfast near Santa Fe. Now, the Rebeleven corner. Bruce BENNETT continues to churn the electronic

airwaves vrith Bogota Blasts. Daughter Keri is doing well, attending school there and working her charms on the embassy staff for apart-time job. Nancy contin¬ ues her tireless duties as hostess for all sorts of activities. With retirement gallop¬

ing up, she will have to get involved in alot of extracurricular activities or suffer major withdrawal. Bruce Is still squiring dignitaries into what he affectionately

refers to as “Adventureland”, aregion in Colombia that is the centerpiece of U.S./ Colombian counterdrug efforts. Poor guy is continuing to watch his golf handicap wither amidst all of these duties. John ZWIEBEL sends ahyperlink so we can see what Cisco is paying him to do in San Jose /Santa Clara, CA. Check out http:// wwwin.clsco.com/ios/lb/ tor all the latest with ‘zwieb’.

Received acouple of notes from classmates who started but did not make it to 6 June 1973. Dave Ricker attended our 25* reunion as atwo-year alumnus of 4*

squadron. He also included an e-mail address. He is in Clifton Park, NY working for Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation as asupervisor of Plant Accounting. Also, got ashort note from areally short timer, William P. Schultz (a.k.a., now William P, Thayer), who left 37* squadron on amedical after four months. He’s simultaneously interpreting French and English in the engineering and nancial markets. Great work if you can get it! In his spare time, he’s studying ancient history. Contact me if you want his e-mail. Acouple of advertising notes from our AOG and then I’m out of here. We can

now go directly to AOG-Mall using www.aogmaU.com to e-mail each other via the AOG web page. Check it out. FinaUy, the AOG has put out an orientation CD for incoming cadets. Asample copy was sent to the scribes, and Ihave to tell you it’s fantastic. It puts technology to use in adirect and helpful way. Great work, AOG! As always, ‘tis aprivilege to represent the greatest bunch of guys Ihave had the prlvUege of being associated with. Your frequent e-mail continues to be the best thing since nighttime baseball for updating. 1encourage you to access the Class Website for addresses and keep In touch. Let’s root our football team on to victory! Joe Brezovic

Jim Donaldson, at left, and Stu Young (76) at 22,840feet! News in from Kris BUDINGER. He and Gail are still in Englewood, They just

graduated the last their four children from high school. Lindsay is quite an artist and earned amerit scholarship for her work and efforts. Their son Josh is 20 just returned from achurch mission in Brazil. He had been there for 15 months,

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ent in Portuguese by now! Kelly Is almost 23, He has served his mission already and is in college in Arizona. Neeley, the oldest, will be 25 in August. She is married and has two children. So Kris and Gall are grandparents twice over. Okay y’all. 1

have heard only one other family is grandparenting already. Who else? ‘Fess up!

We all like to share these great news clips! What other secret ways are there to get back at our youngsters? Kris wrote that Gail is doing great, and is avery accom¬

plished photographer. Her work is amazing and they are all very proud of her.

Kris wrote that he is now CEO/President of acompany called Online Power Sup¬

ply, Inc. They are apublic company... trading symbol OPWR. We have been devel¬ oping new technology in AC to DC power conversion for the past few years and are now ready to go operational. He seems to be really excited the results of long, hard work. His web is: www.onlinepowersupply.com.

Roy and Ann LOWER electronicked in from their island in the Northwest. Roy hadn’t found ajob since he retired, but he really hasn’t been looking either. They’ve busied themselves xing up the place there on Whidbey Island: new front deck

(Ann fell thru the old one), new road to the garage (we had trees in our road and

small saplings in our gutters), dropped 38 trees that were in rather bad shape from wind damage (we get nor’easters in the winter with 70-90 knot winds some¬ time) ;new shed for wood stove insert. [Editor note: Iquit listing the items so the

other wives don’t get similar ideas!] Roy managed to have his left knee operated on in Jan 99 and he says its been worse ever since! He did add that he has to get a job to work alittle less hard. Haw, haw.

Rich and Peg BOWMAN e-mailed in, too. Rich had lamented that he was get¬ ting home at 6:30 during the closing days of his career! JJ ROMANO wished he had it THAT GOOD! Rich had his retirement in June. Now both Bowmans are AF

retirees. Rich wrote “This summer, Peggy and Iplan to hit the road and “see the USA in our Ford truck. Perhaps we will see some of you on are travels. Take warn¬

ing, you never know when we may show up.” All 1can add to that note is —COME ON DOWN!

From the civilian pilot contingent comes ashort note from Jim MAPLES. Jim is in the skies for USAirways. Idon’t remember his homeport. He’s been single since 1985. Jim recently nished six weeks of ground school/simulator on our new wide-body (USAirway’s wide-body), the Airbus 330. Jim’s note included that he saw Bob BINKLEY (CS-09) in the training center in Charlotte, NC. Bob is stilt instructing on the Boeing 737.

Texas news report: JJ ROMANO and Cynthia are doing civilian clothes by now. JJ had set the retirement ceremony June 28. Much like Rich, there was mega¬

work to do and inspectors to walk around right before the last day. Hardly any time to consider which job to take! He even counseled with another classmate, Denny LYONS. After much consideration of subjects like: stay in the area, up¬ front pay, off time, stock options, insurance, and whatever else goes into our per¬ sonal algorithms to determine employment, JJ chose SAIC. That happens to be the same as Tom BALDY, Blair BOZEK and myself. Yeah! Family!

1209 Bayou Oaks Drive

Joe and Darlene BREZOVIC watched their daughter Adrienne graduate from

Friendswood, TX 77546 Phone: (281) 482-6860/Fax: (281) 244-7252 Of ce: (281) 483-1277

eighth grade.Are they the only parents thinking there’s been afew years cut off

this! I’m not there yet —I’m trying to work my memory on what happened to

somewhere? Too soon for these major steps in life. Joe had done awhirl tour of a few major cities in Europe during aweekend between NASA -European Space Agency meetings. The Lourve, Notre Dame and the Ei e Tower on aSunday. The next Saturday was across the 26-mile English Channel on one of the only two airboats in the world. Drove to London for Big Ben, Westminster, changing of the guard at Buckingham, Trafalgar and Picadilly Square and back to Paris in one day. Versailles and Normandy Beach Monument the next day, Sunday. In those two

Spring. For me, tomorrow is the rst day of summer! Yep, it is 19 June on the updated calendar in front of me. Now, this is the rst time some of you are read¬

arts, and what he must do to protect these rights! No, Ididn’t try McDonalds In

E-mail: joseph.l.brezovic.jr@saic.com Hello to Classmates and Readers!

Isuppose you’re wondering where the summer went as you sit down to read

places one can get contemplative over what man can do for literature and ne

ing alot of this, so it’s still fresh news! Ihave one letter to pass on. Jim DONALDSON and Stu YOUNG (’76) sent in a photo at the top of apeak. Well! THE peak. Jim, Stu, and afew other USAirway

London. Td like to report on the personal taste tests of McDonalds in Moscow, Russia- Paris, France- and Houston, Texas —the one in Texas tastes better! Prob¬

It’s the highest point in the Americas and the highest point outside of Asia! Don wrote: “Summit day was tough —like spending 14 hours in aplace we all remem¬ ber weU, Hell’s Half Acre!” Isn’t it nice to have memories of the past connect with the present. Ouch. Must have had avery hard day! Signe, his wife, and oldest son, Michael, presented Jim alight memento to carry to the top. It is in the picture. An

R. “Doc” Holaday. Doc was in the 69-70 Prep School class (B Squadron) and Tiger Ten at USAFA for the doolie year. Grades sent him packing after that.. .ending up at the University ofVirginia and an ROTC commission. |I’m sure that was ahard row to hoe, too.] Doc is currently the deputy director for Accession Policy in OSD and will PCS in July to Randolph AFB as director of Operations for Air Force Recruiting

pilots climbed to the top of Aconcagua. In Argentina. At 22,840 feet above seal level.

ably the main reason is —there is no place like home!

Another voice from the past, and by now resident of the San Antonio area, is James

0-6 positions; Dave as commander of the 701“' Combat Operations Squadron

Class of 74 Prep School Huskies: In the front row from left are Richard Williams, Peter], Fiorenzi, John Voss, C.D. Smith, Phyllip Huffman and TonyBrozena. In the

back row are Lou Crooks, Joe Brezovic, Jim Maples, Richard Blanchet and John Brockman

Service. [Editor note: Ihope you all are guiding sharp individuals to the Air Force! Especially if we are in aposition to select our inheritors, help us keep the Blue Line strong. Oh, from an earlier Checkpoints article on “Discipline”, it was given to the 1879 Graduating Class of West Point. Of course you remembered that. That sums up the communications Ihave. Ilook forward to hearing from any¬ one and all of you. May you, and yours, live long and prosper.

based at March ARB and Steve as 452 Air Mobility Wing Support Group com¬ mander, also at March. When Dave’s not making sure his unit is ready to augment the Korean Air Operations Center in the event of acon ict, he’s still ying European routes as a767er rst of cer for Delta. In that vein he gave the following updates: Charlie SIMMONS is training to be aMD-88 captain at Delta and is moving to Texas. Jim CORRIGAN is a727 FO with Delta living in Alabama. Bob TURNER is ying the MD-88 with Delta and is living in Atlanta. Brian DUFFY is training as the commander for the joint shuttle launch with the Russians. Rick LAYMAN married alovely lady, Diana, and is living in California. She has turned him into quite the entrepreneur in the wine business; for more see www.aproposwinedesigns.com. (Dave and Iare expecting some gratuities for the plug). Special for fellow Niners: Dave and Barb got together with Lonnie and Harleen Alexander recently; they’re doing well as “Colonel A’’ appears to be on the road to recovery after arun-in with prostate cancer. Steve is afull-time Reservist (Air Reserve Technician, ART) and earned his way into his current job after being detailed there in July ’95. He helped the unit "smoke” an AMC/AFRC ORI ve weeks later, got the deputy commander’s job later that year and the commander’s ag in April ’97. All of this followed Steve’s retirement from days as aKC-135 instructor/evaluator in Jan ’95 when he was medically grounded after undergoing quadruple heart bypass surgery (“bad genes”)! Steve reports that Tim WRIGHTON beat us all —has been apinned-on Reserve 0-6 for at least four

years. Tim went to AWC in residence, was the DO at the 349th AMW at Travis for ayear or so and is now on atour as AFRC liaison to the AMC/CC at Scott.

Also heard from two of the other 0-6 promotees, both at Wright-Patterson AFB. Fred WHITICAN is asenior IMA in aSpecial Operation Forces System Program

Jeff Hackett

Of ce. His active-duty boss is our classmate Sam RYALS. Have to confess that Ican’t nd my notes from atelephone conversation with Mike McCLENDON but I’m cer¬ tain he told me that he was headed to ajob as senior IMA in one of the AFRL Direc¬ torates at Wright-Patterson.

2610 E. Stottler Drive

Gilbert, AZ 85296 Home: (480) 558-8703 Of ce: (480) 891-2734 E-mail: jhackett75@earthlink.net Percent members: 39

UNDERSTANDING HOWTHEWORLD WORKS. Let’s see; 1) this will be the last

column you’ll read before our 25“’ reunion, 2) you just might run into me in the hotel bar, 3) many (most?) of you will be (or at least should be) dealing with a guilty conscience about your failure to correspond regularly... so now is the time to start practicing, “Hey Barkeep! Get my friend the Scribe another cold amber ale while Itell him what’s new in my life!” I’ll be sure to bring anotepad.. Yes folks, reunion time is just around the corner and you’re reminded that 25thyear classes get “the stage” all to themselves, not like the 20th where we could get lost amongst the really old farts (Class of ’65) and/or the snot-nosed youngsters (Class of ’85). This wall be our chance to make asingular impression on today’s cadets, the staff, and each other (why do Ithink vastly different images are form¬ ing in your minds?) But whatever the headlines (or Security Police blotters) say, you’ll want to be apart of it! As of this writing it looks like advanced registration won’t tun out until 16 October, so GET ON THE STICK and make arrangements to be there!!

Fred Whitican gets pinned on by by this wife, Cheryl, and Sam Ryals. And me? Well, after over 11 years at Ogden ALC and alifetime of being around airplanes I’m into some career broadening as senior IMA in the Test and Evalua¬

GETTING THE RECOGNITION HE DESERVES -FOR WHATEVER REASON.

tion Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center. My desk and boss are at Kirdand

Carrying on my “advertisement” for the reunion, I’m inclined to tell you that this is apicture of Mark WELLS being honored by ageneral of cer for his work as ‘75 Reunion Committee chairman. But you’ll probably look closely enough and no¬ tice that’s BG Wagie (the Dean) and remember that Itold you acouple of issues ago that Mark had been nominated for permanent professor -it’s now (as of April)

AFB but Iexpect to regularly get to other places the directorate employs IMAs: Johnson Space Center, Schriever AFB, Los Angeles AFB, and Vandenburg AFB. I’m very pleased and have already secured an invite for Mexican food at Wayne WILLIS’ house in Albuquerque!

of cial! But Tm sure if General Wagie knew about the reunion thing he made mention of it and probably put acouple extra bucks in Mark’s paycheck.

THE SHORT AND LONG OF IT. Got anumber of "one-liners” which Iwall, on

principle refrain from detailing (be proud and give me alittle more to work vrith please). O.K., Imake one “sort of’ exception for Gernot POMRENKE who wrote to say he has “moved from the DoD to the civilian side of the house when it comes to

S&T (Science &Technology).” That’s the entire body of the message but Iinclude it only to note that Doctor Pomrenke’s signature block took up three-quarters of my computer screen! Something about “Program Director: Electronics, Photonics,

and Device Technologies Program”, “Integrative Systems Program” and awhole bunch more. Iknew there was areason he was our Squadron Academic Of cer. Doug MILLER had alittle more to say. Writing in April from Dyess AFB where he was 317 Airlift Group commander (C- 130s) but was in receipt of assignment to be AMC chair at Air University. Doug’s son Ryan is part of the Class of ’03 at USAFA. Doug also noted that our classmate, BG Joe STEIN, is also at Dyess as the 7th bomb Wing/CC.

MAKING GOOD USE OF SPARE TIME? Paul KENT, who is apilot with North¬ west living in Washington, used alittle Excel wizardry to merge/sort AOG and NWA databases to generate this not-quite 100-percent-guaranteed list of our class¬ mates who are with the airline; Bob ALLEN, Mike BANKER, Art BILUNGSLEA, Eric BUHYOFF, Bruce CORRELL, Mike CRIDER, John DALY, Richard DUHACHEK,

Dean Wagie congratulates Mark Wells, permanent professor. Department of

John FOUTS, Karl GABRYS, Greg GIESER, Chris GLAESER, Mike GUDMUNDSON,

H i s t o r y. OOPS! BUTHEDID WHAT WANTED ANYWAY. I’ll confess the Scribe did not do

Scott HAMMOND, Sam HOLLINS, Paul KENT, Richard KIM, Alan KRUKOWSKI, Charles MCLUCAS, Steve NICHOLS, Gunnar OHGREN, Jim OSTEEN, Dave PRATT, Dave SCHMITZ, Bill SCHUESSLER, Mark STICKNEY, Jack STORER, Pete STRUNK,

all the homework that Ishould have and now the record must be publicly corrected -Dave COMMONS pinned his eagles on before me. But it was a“good” mistake to make as that one line in last quarter’s column got me an e-mail from both Dave and from Steve KEEN. Turns out they both were approved for pin-on as soon as the list

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was approved by the Senate in February because they were already sitting in

Bob THOMPSON, Steve VARGO, Gerry WALLACE, Steve WEILBRENNER, Gary WHITFIELD, John WISSMAN, and Todd ZEJDLIK.

THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY. Actually got one of those good of envelopes in the USPS mailbox from Chuck MOLZON letting us know that he retired about a year ago and is now ying vrith American Trans Air. He, Donna and the kids (Laura, 15; Neal, 9; and Ryan, 7) now live about 35 miles South of Indianapolis. And Italked with Kent TRAYLOR on the phone last weekend (while Iwas in Northern California to compete in a24-mile in-line skate race). He had just re¬ ceived word that he’ll be off to anew assignment at the Pentagon at the end of the Summer: Ithink he said he was going to AF/XPX but brain cells containing that information may have been damaged by overexertion in the race (or possibly vriped

phone number, I’m now going to try having you use my home e-mail address for

all of your future correspondence. Please give it atry real soon! And with that, me and my summertime cold vrill shuf e offtobedand remind you to start picking out those clothes you’ll be taking to Reunion -it’s closer than you think! Ernie Woollard 216E. GoettlerSt. Scott AFB, IL 62225-1710

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Hello Fellow 76’ers; greetings from Cardinal Country!

The summer just seems to be ying by... no major contingencies at AMC this year, meaning alittle more time to share the Southwestern Illinois good life with friends and family. The golf courses have greened up with recent rains, swimming pools nally are warm enough to comfortably accommodate all parts of the body, local rivers and lakes are teeming with boaters and anglers of all kinds, and its once again fun to see the St Louis Cardinals play alitde baseball. The “military ID” en¬ trance requirement at Busch Stadium is simply unbeatable, and the night life at Laclede’s Landing can surely top off any visit to the city. The air show at Scott was very entertaining while Fair St Louis truly made for an outstanding 4* of July cel¬ ebration. For folks transiting Scott for ashort RON, the local community sure has a lot to offer. Scott seems to be a"well kept” secret for Navy air operations. The class news is somewhat light this time around... it must be because of all the summer activities. Greg BRICKER has started that second career working C-5 issues with Lockheed while Bob VAUGHN is working with acontractor in the local area. Lance CHRISTIAN has arrived to work in the HQ AMC DO maze, while Kevin

MARTIN has yet to latch on to that perfect second-career opportunity. Mike FRICANO just hired Randy JOHNSON to work as acivilian in the HQ AMC Studies and Analysis Flight. Iran into Randy at Fort Eustis, he was brushing up on his transportation skills at the Defense Transportation School. Mike also passed on that Steve STOUT would be retiring from the Reserves this fall while Steve FRYE is on tap to join the AWC faculty at Maxwell later this summer. Terry WILLIAMS is staying exceptionally busy keeping the command commu¬ nications up to speed, and when he’s not mnning between meetings; he’s literally out running... to maintain that peak condition. Bill CAROLAN continues to drop in for IMA duty when he’s not touring the country in support of Boeing’s C-17 project. Cliff SIMMONS has nally set his retirement date, Nov 30* this year. I think he will be staying in the local area. Bob NORMAN looked no worse for wear after completing his bike ride across Iowa, but then how hilly can Iowa be? As for me. I’m still gainfully employed in the TACC with no plans to change careers until sometime in 2004. On asad note, our condolences go out to the Gary LORENZEN family; Gary passed away on March 13*; he is now at rest in the USAFA Cemetery.

presence of hair, the antiquated training aircraft in the background. This can only be aUPT group. Who are these guys? Ascribe tip of the hat to anyone who can name everyone in this group (the submitter of the photo, and you Imow who you are, is ineligible). Iwill give you one hint -the photo was taken in ahot, at place. Good luck, and e-mail submissions are welcome.

Igot an e-mail from Rubin SILVA (Karina). Rubin bumped into John VISSER (Anne) last spring and got turned on to the website. Rubin is currently at Lackland working for AETC, and Rubin’s name relates to the above photo in more than just ageographical sense (OK, two hints). Tom SLATTERY (Jill) dropped me an e-mail from his law rm, Arter &Hadden, late on aThursday night. Tom has not exactly been aregular contributor to these pages and his e-mail noted that “once in 23 years is plenty.” Just glad to have some info, Tom. Tom noted that his son Stuart reported for his entry into the USAFA Class of 2004 at the end of June. Good for you, Tom and best of luck to Stuart and the rest of the zoomies. Rocky VILIAFANE (Janet) who drives jets for Delta, re¬ ported that Mark GILZEAN (Barbara) has formally been blessed as aDelta pilot.

Rocky also reports that Jim STAVA (Holly) is pushing metal for Delta out of Salt Lake (727s) as acaptain and looking to work in the Chief Pilot’s of ce to actually

get some more time in Utah. As for Rocky, he will be moving up from the 737s to 757/767S this summer. Rocky notes he is debating whether to retire out of the Active Reserve as amajor or stay in another two years to take ashot at LTC. He

notes the pay difference is not that much, “and then there’s anthrax...” 'Nuff said. Rocky. ASTRONAUT STUFF: The next class space shot is slated for Jan. 18, 2001. One each Tom JONES (Liz) is scheduled to lift off at 0300 for aspace station mission

where they will drop off the U.S. lab module. Ithink Tom is slated for at least one of the three space walks scheduled to get the lab hooked up. Iam hoping it will go better than his last attempt at the space walk in which he was locked inside the

airlock by afaulty door mechanism. And Tom himself wrote to tell me about Charlie precourt’s (Lynne) retirement from the Air Force in March. Charlie will con¬ tinue as aNASA guy as the chief of the Astronaut Of ce in Houston. One of Charlie’s big jobs will be working with the Russians on joint crew policies for the station (you know -no smoking, vodka only on speci ed holidays, etc.). In case you see this Charlie, Tom asked me to remind you that he would like to get up reasonably close to the launch date. Iwill second that, Iam planning on trying to get down there to see it, along with Rick SOWERS and George PATTERSON (Nancy). MORE PHOTOS: In answer to the question poised in arecent column, “What does Milt JOHNSON (Jackie) really look like?”, see the security photo below:

Don Hall "rides shotgun” in the second T-6A Texan II to arrive at Randolph AFB March 2000.

Hopefully, as we move into the cold weather season, more of you will be able to nd time to let the rest of know... ”WhafsUppp!” Drop me aline, e-mail, what¬ ever. .. give me acall at the of ce or at home; REMEMBER, we’re rapidly approach¬ ing that time for our 25* Reunion. Keep ying safe... John J“Lou” Michels, Jr. 5107 Juglan Court Centreville,VA 22020 H: (703) 802-6611 W: (703) 712-5350

Milt and Doug BANKER (Julie) are working at Schreiver for Sparta doing the government contractor thing. Thanks Milt, it is aprivilege to live in Colorado. Doug SEASON (Cindy) took at break from his work at Kirtland with esoteric weapons to ask me if Iwas the troublemaker creating problems for the AF with my views on the anthrax vaccine. That would be me, Doug. Given our shared experience with the swine- u vaccine, Iam sure the anthrax stuff is just as safe.

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Steve SIMON (Paula) retired last year and headed down to Tampa and MacDill

PHOTO EDITION: In an effort to improve your expectations, 1am formally noti¬ fying you, the reader, that this column is lled with photographs, on the theory that apicture is worth athousand words. At least that is true if you recognize the picture. With that caveat, let me introduce the rst in what Ihope will be an an¬ nual contest -NAME THESE LIEUTENANTS.

Examine the above photograph carefully. The short hair, the at stomachs, the

along with Paula who is still on active duty. Steve has been writing for Air Force Times, working as an Academy selection guy for alocal congressman and trying to get an AOG chapter started in Tampa. Thanks for the update Steve, and Ihope life continues to be good.

Bill LORD (Cindy) gave me aquick update. He is headed back to Air Material

Command this summer as the comm and info expert. Bill has seen quite afew

people in his travels (or is it travails). Mike WEINSTEIN (Bonnie) is running his

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out in Post-Race Thank-God-I’m-Still-Alive celebration). Also must acknowledge acall from Mike BUCKLEY in June. Big news from Anchorage was that he and Diane were in the process of moving to anew house (local move). KEEP UP WITH ME HERE. Please note that along with new home address and

own business in Albuquerque and bemoaning his age as his oldest, Casey, was elected for USAFA entrance. Bill says that Jeff REMINGTON (Marla) is taking over the wing at Cannon. Mark LINDSLEY (Patti) is the wing CC for the JSTARS eet at Warner-Robbins. Curt and Ina BEDKE are headed to the Mighty Eighth as the Vice. Many thanks for the very informative update Bill, and my very best in the new job.

Liz and Matt COATSWORTH are on the move again, this time to Hurlburt where Matt is ying with AFSOC and the Eagle folks as a ight doc. Matt is always run¬ ning at-out so Igot this update from Liz and, as always, my thanks for keeping me posted.

ANOTHER PHOTO OP: Mike Billings (Sandy) makes his rst appearance, in one of my columns anyway, and sent aphoto along with it. Mike is at Scott as the deputy XP and herded together four other leather-jacket types for aphoto.

CLOSING STATEMENT; Time to close this one. Many thanks again to all those who wrote, hope everyone has agreat summer. Be seeing you. T. J. “Bahaska” Whltehair 1205 Southview Drive

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Star Light, Star Bright, First Star ISee Tonight: Just had afeeling that we'd have ageneral or two by the time 1got this column out (thus causing amassive rewrite of the column). But, back in the fall of 1999,1 asked Goldy if we had any “stars" yet and the answer Igot was arather lengthy “no” at that time. However, he gave a complete rundown (more than 1ever wanted to know) on how acolonel gets to general. So, thanks to Goldy, here goes. The rst list where a'78-year-group of cer is realistically eligible was at Christ¬ mas time 1999. Acolonel is “technically’’ eligible to make brigadier general after completing two years time in grade. Although technically possible, it is extremely rare, if not impossible, for anyone to make BG on their rst look. Typically, folks who make it are on their third or fourth look. PRFs are done each time, but accu¬

mulate in their les for every subsequent look for BG. Of cers are rank ordered by the four-star commanders who rate them and the progression of rank order merit position which becomes perhaps the most important factor in the process. This means the average BG select has some

From left are Geno REDMOND (Susan), who nished his ops group CC tour at Altus and is now the deputy for the tanker Air Lift Control Center. Mike notes that Geno’s red Mazda Miata is totally unrelated to Geno’s midlife crises (or is the ve¬ hicle actually Susan’s?). Paul SCHUTT (Barbara) is retiring in September from his job as the deputy J3 at Transcon. Dave LAWTON (Susan) is waiting for abid after having come out on the support group CC list. Mike BILLINGS is next. C.J. JONES works with Geno in the tanker control center and, according to Mike, has not aged asingle day since graduation. Joining Geno and C.J. in tanker support is Craig ADAMS who mysteriously could not make the photo. Also at Scott is Bert HALBERT, who is awaiting promotion to 0-6 and handles the Civil Reserve Air Fleet issues for AMC. Mike also reported that Pete MARTINEZ is acaptain with U.S. Airways y¬ ing the A-lOO, Bruce BILLIG (Carol) is pushing metal for Southwest, Fred JACKLITSCH (Karla) retired in December from his job at XP at Scott, which was when Mike lost track of him. Many thanks for agreat message Mike, and contin¬ ued best at Scott with some pretty good folks. Jim ILSE is now at the Springs working for MCI, he dropped me aquick message earlier this year.

ve-six year’s time in grade as acolo¬

nel when they are selected. Historically, this occurs in the 23'<' or 24* year of ser¬ vice but very few make it after about 26 years of service. The absolute earliest in history is in the 21st year. So technically, those classmates who pinned on way below the zone have the best chance. Personally, I’m for aClass of Stars (RE: West

Point Class of 1915) where virtually everyone who survives the war long enough makes BG.

MI3; Good Morning ‘78ers. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to hunt down arouge of cer recently noti ed (so I’ve heard and Ihope correctly, and remember I’m retired) as aBG (Big Guy) selectee so that classmates can slap him on the back with congratulations, order him acase of specially prepared monogrammed cigars, and get him anew call sign! From ahumble start in Play¬ boy 19 to the hardships of Thirsty Third, this of cer has risen through the ranks by kissing babies, courting VIP wives, and closing down every bar in 50 states and seven continents. Current intelligence places him as a“Wing King” imposter at Luke AFB. He is heavily guarded by an army of “yes” men who jump at his every word and he has recruited aharem of handmaidens to cater to his every whim. His motto is "To lead the lemmings down the runway while hoping everyone else follows”. Cross-trained as aLawn-dart instructor and former WWF wrestler known

as “Stunning Steve”, he’s unpredictably dangerous, armed, and must be ap¬ proached with extreme caution. Most importantly, he interrupted the channel sur ng of the class scribe on Memorial Day who was switching back and forth between the John Wayne classics of “Operation Paci c” and “The Green Berets”. As always, should you or any of your Ml team be killed or captured, the State De¬ partment will disavow any knowledge of your existence. Good Luck ‘78ers. This column will self-destruct in

ve seconds.

Flight Lead: Richard LANE (Maggie), acaptain with Southwest Airlines ( ying 737’s) when not renovating houses, sends his regards from Charleston, SC. His spouse, Maggie, recently retired as aLTC nurse with 18 years service and is now the discharge coordinator at the VA Medical Center in downtown Charleston. He

notes that alot of ‘78ers are ying with Southwest such as Tom BAL, Mike DUC, Kurt GEARHART, Scott GOODFELLOW, Jess HAMILTON, Jerry LEATHERMAN, Joe MATTUSKI, Dave McLERAN, and Jonathan WEISS.

John Visser at Mitch’s.

LAST PHOTOS, IPROMISE: TVvo more pictures here. The rst is of our own website manager, John VISSER, seated with some luckless cadet over aplate of unidenti able food at Mitch’s. John’s comment was that the “food, smells and

attitudes” have not changed. Isuspect that if the food has not, the attitude cer¬ tainly has not. The next shot belongs to my nominee for the handsome family of the quarter -Duff and Mary MUIR and their kids.

Purple Pentagon Eaters: Bach HOLLERBACH, working out of the Pentagon’s XOPX shop, reports that he loves his job and the exciting of ce he’s in. However, that’s only if you like asbestos, leaking pipes, no water, and rats as big as cats. He noted that Andy COX works at OSD Africa, Ed RICE is deputy director for EAF Implementation, Steve GOLDFEIN is the CSAF’s exec, Keye SABOL is also in the XOPX shop, Tom KANA is ying civilian out in Colorado, and Steve SLICK is the semi-king (Reserves) at Dover AFB. Late entry. I’ve learned that Ed RICE and Steve GOLDFEIN are now wing kings to be or there or whatever (I can’t keep up); more stars surely to follow. Z-News; LTC Robert “Z” ZIELINSKI is currently at Cannon AFB as the 27* Deputy Operations Group commander. Randie STROM, the CE Group commander/Base Civil Engineer at Kirtland AFB (at least until his unit is contracted out in the Au¬ gust/September 2000 timeframe), reports that Joe BONIN is stationed at AFOTEC also at Kirtland.

The Cowboy Rides Again: While just joking about the Cowboy cutting your hair,

Steve FIKAR responded with arei life Cowboy story. Evidently as adoolie, the Cowboy butchered Steve’s hair so bad that he did the unthinkable -he complained via acomplaint card. So, some months later and totally from out of the blue, Steve gets acall from the base JAG. The JAG wanted adeposition from Steve and about 20 other cadets as the JAG was trying to get the Cowboy red. At this point, Steve believes the Cowboy got canned and we’ve been safe ever since (I think he

was just transferred to the New Dorm). And Ithought those comment cards were thrown away by the barbers! I’m Going to Disneyland! James (J.D.) PAULY (Debbie and two Children) is re¬

tired in Orange, CA (near Disneyland). J.D. is aproduct support manager for Rockwell Collins' Passenger Systems Division in Pomona, CA making movie sys¬ tems for all commercial aircraft. Smile, you're on candid camera. Generational Preppies: Sam THERRIEN has been with United Airlines for three years now while ying the 777 on international routes. Sam, an AFA Preppie and

The Muir Family

former mustang (i.e., that’s an of cer who came up from the ranks), reports that

last 15 years or so.

Jack Screw Specialists: 727 Flight Engineer Mike “Padge” PADGETT retired last November and is based in Cincinnati while 727 Flight Engineer Greg CLAUSEN (F-15 pilot extraordinaire) is based in Dallas, but hoping to get to Atlanta. Greg wants to get to the right seat, which should be soon. Woodworker: There is always aclassmate who shuns the limelight, just does his

job day in, day out, without much fanfare or recognition, somewhere way out there beyond the normal traf c patterns, in agalaxy far, far, away. If you remem¬ ber, Alex TRUJILLO was working AF and Counter Drug Operations in conjunction with the Peruvian AF in Lima, Peru. Well, he’s got anew assignment. Europe,

Japan, or Los Estados Unidos you say. Nope! Yes, he's been transferred (I heard volunteered) for atwo-three year tour in Santiago, Chile as the Military Group Commander. Just down the street, in layman's terms. He invites anyone who's down that way to visit, problem is; no one goes there! My Three Daughters: Bob KEELE, retired since 1995 and now a fth grade teacher in Loveland CO, reports his oldest, Jacque, is asophomore at the University of

year ago. Robin RAND stopped by to see Fred on trip through Atlanta. Rob is still on active duty and doing well. Fred told me he’s the new commander of some¬ thing! Buddy VAZQUEZ (Moily) is stiU at Hanscom. He’s the program director for Glo¬ bal Air Traf c Operations/ Mobility Command &Control. Chris KING (Caroline) took Bud’s job in Mission Planning. Bud also let me know about afew others. Tom GRIFFITH (Liz) is on his was to be the support group commander at Incirlik. Bill MURPHY is at Langley’s Aerospace C2 Intelligence, Surveillance &Recon Center. Chris WORSOWICZ retired from Happy Hanscom and is now one of those dreaded “support contractors.” Who says 20-plus years of training can’t help you land a decent job! Miles TRUMBLE (Bobbin) also retired and is now attending the Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Hamilton, MA. Finally, Bud let me know that Rick DAVIS (Susan) is the JPATS SPO director at Aeronautical Systems Division, Wright Pat.

Well that’s it! Mike ASHLEY’S up next—his new e-mail is trash79@earthlink.net. Address: Route 2, Box 36E, Charles Town, WV 25414-9675. Phone (304) 728-0274.

His deadline is mid-September, so get to him quick. Again, an open invite for a beer and arun (maybe arun and beer would be abetter sequence) if any of you

get to the Seattle area

Northern Colorado; his second, Julie, is ajunior at Loveland High School; and the

Don Myers

youngest, Jean, is in sixth grade. The three “J’s” will be breaking heart for along

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time.

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You Might Be AFormer ‘78er If: You’re still the meanest mother in the valley. Remembrance: Ican't think of abetter way to end this column than from a rather pointed e-mail Ireceived from Jim ARNOLD on the anniversary of the fall

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of Saigon. His e-mail follows:

From the Staff Tower in Mitchell Hall 25 years ago today: “Gendemen. Saigon has fallen. Carry on.” It seems unreal to me that it has been 25 years since those words were spoken. I remember the quiet that followed. No one said anything for afew seconds, and

Admin Items. You’ll note there are no phone numbers for me listed in the box above. Icould rightfully say this is because there is no need to waste the space, since Ihave received no calls from you in the last two years —everything’s been

when conversation did resume, it was muted. Iremember that there was astrong

via e-mail and the occasional snail mail. The real reason, however, is that Kathy

belief within the Cadet Wing that certainly the U.S. wouldn’t allow the North Viet¬ namese to win, would they? Ade ning moment in American history, and in ours.

and Ihope to be living somewhere else when you read this. Lord willing, 1should have started my post-Coast Guard >ing career. The only problem we have is that

Vietnam was not ‘‘our war” but it was the war most of our instructors fought. It was the war we studied; it was the war we heard most about. It was the war no one

we don’t know where we’ll be (because Ihave no job yet). Oh, you’ll note I’ve also added the address for our class home page to the above box. This issue of Checkpoints will be published not long before our reunion. Any news will be stale by then. Regardless, I’m going to share some of the neat stuff you have been doing and leave it at that. The Neat Stuff. Holly (EMRICK) SVETZ, and afew more of our classmates, spon¬

wanted to repeat; and so far we have succeeded in that endeavor (although “peace¬ keeping" comes mighty close!). Iremember the T-shirts that some of the of cers wore -before they were told not to wear them around cadets! -“Participant, South East Asian War Games -

Second Place”. Iremember that the SERE compound was patterned after the North Vietnamese prison camps. In short, IREMEMBER! Iguess I’m getting old, and Ireminisce too much, Afew phrases remain in my mind when Ithink about Vietnam -“Distinguished Flying Crosses do not com¬ pensate for losses!” and the poem we had to learn, by Navy Commander Jerry

sored Keylor ENG in the four-day, 330-mile Raleigh-to-Washington AIDSRideS to raise money for two metro D.C. organizations. Keylor hit them up for sponsorship recently when Mike SKINNER set up agreat pre-20th Reunion lunch at the Penta¬ gon Executive Dining Room for all of you in the D.C. area. Food, friends, and a special location... sounds like all the makings of agood time.

Breck-not-the-shampoo-but-Breckenridge is where Mike (Julie+2) NAYE has

Coffee:

We toast our hearty comrades,

decided to let himself be known to the class once again. They had VIP seating for

Who have fallen from the skies.

Susan HELMS’ last shuttle launch because he knew another of the mission spe¬

To be caught by God’s own hand.

cialists for the ight, Mary Ellen Weber, afriend from Mike’s skydiving team. “As far as what’s going on in Summit County, I’ve skied 56 months in arow and all of that right here near Breck. It takes some hiking in the summer to get to the snow, but it’s worth it. The fact is. I’m hiking to ski 12 months out of the year and spend¬ ing alot less time at the resorts these days.” Mike still skydives and has been part

To be with Him on high.

To soar among the clouds. They’ve known so well before. From victory roll to tailchase, At heaven’s very door. And as we y among them there,

of the “half-time entertainment” for eight years running at the Bolder Boulder

lOK Race by jumping into the CU stadium. He commutes to y for US Airways, but it’s evident he also gets time to enjoy home. He shares that JR SMITH is taking the deputy ops group commander job in Aviano and it might be dif cult to leave

We’re sure to hear their plea.

Take care, my friend, and Watch your six, and.

Italy for the reunion.

Diana (GREEN) (Frank ’79) FRANCOIS have started an independent business

Do one more roll for me!

May God bless each and every one of you. Watch your six! Jim Arnold. Brian Koechel 3714-241 Court SE

Issaquah, WA 98029-6592 Work: (425) 895-4327 Home: (425) 557-1025

in Virginia centered around Nikken health products. Diana also is leaving the Pentagon and hanging up her blue suit. "We’re staying in the area (two kids in high school, husband ying for United domiciled in Wash, DC, you know the drill). Iplan to take all summer off to goof off with the family, travel, lay by the pool, drink margaritas, etc. In the fall Iwill start looking for something with suf ciently high compensation so that Ican afford to get these kids through college!” Tom SLOAN penned anote (that means he took apen and vwote on paper, how

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novel—think about that when you’re sitting on aplane or in your hotel room). He

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and my dad met at ashooting range near Youngstown, OH ayear ago. Seems they have acommon shooting friend from when my family used to live there (over 30 years ago!) Anyway, Tom is content with asenior copilot’s life at US Airways so he can coordinate the alternating weekly custody of his three children. “I have to juggle my schedule alot to make the custody issue work. Tm either working or home. Very litde free time for myself.” Regardless, Tom plans to be at the 20th with all of you. Randolph Ears Gone. Peggy (DENNIS) (Bob) CARNAHAN has retired from the

Hello again from the Paci c Northwest! The good news is this edition was an

easy and simple task. The bad news is that was so because of the little input re¬ ceived! Help out Mike ASHLEY by getting him “the gouge” early, and lots of it. Remember garbage in, garbage out. Ben OSLER (Pandora) is the commander of aJoint Ops Unit (I think) at Ft.

Huachuca, AZ. If Iremember correctly, Ben wanted to be agrunt upon gradua¬

tion, but the higher-ups wouldn’t let him cross-commission. Iguess if he couldn’t be one, he could lead them anyway! Eventually.

Rich HALL dropped anote saying all is well ying out of Miami for United. Rich is a777 pilot. He left AD in ‘92 after being aC-130 and aC-141 driver at McChord and Charleston.

Wally TA'TLOR (Denise) just retired after his last assignment as an exchange of¬ cer at the Naval Academy. Wally and crew like the area, as he is staying in Mary¬ land and teaching high school. Bob SWAIN retired from the Reserves and still llys for US Airways out of Charlotte. Fred JACOBSEN (Nancy) gave me ajingle to let us know all is going just “peachy” in Peachtree City, GA. Fred is with Delta and about to start ying the line after years working in the training department. Fred let me know that Jimmy SCHNELLER was recendy picked up by Delta. Jim retired out of McChord about a

AF in San Antonio to afarm in Missouri. Complete with lots of land and many

forms of critters, they’ll likely be there whenever they aren’t pushing heavy metal through the skies. Imention this in aparagraph all its own because, through the years, Peggy has forwarded many pieces of information on all of you who were still in the AF. I’m hearby calling on the rest of you to keep an eye on the AF net for stuf canuse. Thanks

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his enlisted son, having beat the competitive process, will be attending the AFA Prep School starting on July 26, 2000 like Sam did in 1973. In other news, Sam reports that Greg POSTULKA, as previously reported, is agreat F-15 SPO director at Wright-Pat and that Doug FIAGEDORN is avery senior F/0 vrith Delta for the

Shorts. Janet THERIANOS is moving from Scott to take over the 60th Ops Group at Travis. Doug (Teresa+2) OWENS can’t keep ajob: He’s left Barksdale to take the 607th Air Ops Group at Osan, where he’ll y the Warthog. Scott NORWOOD is busy at Tyndall converting once-retired F-4s into QF-4s (unmanned drones) and using them to evaluate new missiles —sounds like lots of m with very expensive toys. Got afancy invitation to view Paul (Ricki SMITH) SELVA’s assumption of command of the 62nd Airlift Wing at McChord AFB in July. Too bad Icouldn’t make it—J rarely pass on food. Our only photo this go comes from Bob Hendricks and includes his oldest daughter, Erin. Bob’s at Osan and commands the 607 Com¬ bat Ops Sq. The high school seniors and parents are invited to the U.S. Embassy each May. Bob even provided the caption for us. % ■

doesn’t bode ill for American Airlines’ ORD S-80 operations... "Hmmm... maybe we better plan to route through DFW just in case... Thanks for the inputs, John. It’s about time Iheard from former poli-z faculty-mate Michelle JOHNSON.

Michelle spent ’99 at National War College, where even the pull afforded by being Jay Santee’s occasional carpool partner could not spare her from yearbook duty, where securing nancial sponsors proved far more dif cult than formulating na¬

tional security strategy. Since March, she’s commanding the 97* Ops Group at AJtus AFB, the schoolhouse for aircrews in C-17s, C-5s, C-141s and KC-135S.

Michelle and husband, John Hargreaves, have been chasing each other around the world but are together for the moment. John’s the C-141 branch simulator certi cation instructor pilot for AMC Detachment 2at Altus. John, Michelle notes, spent over two years as the AMC liaison to the Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) at Camp Courtney, Okinawa and is now uent in guttural sounds that convey amphibious assault plans, PT counts, and professional counseling. Phil SWANSON is also at Altus, where he’s completing asquadron command assignment and head¬ ing off to ICAF.

Bobby RENAUD passed on the good news that Steve HIRST continues to make progress recovering from abad car accident he had several years ago. Steve lives in Colorado Springs and took his rst unassisted steps afew months ago, atribute

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to his determination.

Marty FRANCE reports that he, Leonard HEAVNER, and Sam ANGELELLA are hound for the Pentagon and Joint Staff (all to J-8) following completion of Na¬

tional War College.

Just got his great picture in from Don Chapman —’ 81 men are running Hill AFB!

Proud father of future Osan American High School graduate and University of North Texas alumnus in front of U.S. Embassy, Republic of Korea. I’d like to hear, “Class of 1980, all present. Sir!’’ at our reunion this October. I’m 100 percent certain that Tom MABRY &Company are bringing all the plans to¬

gether in Colorado Springs for awonderful bash. If you know of someone who thinks they can’t come due to some special needs, let’s work on this together. Be¬ sides that, Ionly have this to say: BE THERE! God bless. Don 1

Dennis Ward 8300 Greentree Manor Lane

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Greetings to All as we begin our 20* post-USAFA year, which will culminate in o u r r e u n i o n a b o u t 1 2 m o n t h s f r o m n o w. N o i n f o o n t h a t e v e n t i s a v a i l a b l e a s 1

write this but it may be by the time you read it -check the AOG web site at vnvw.aogusafa.org. It may be too early to make plans, but it’s not too early to begin thinking about the reunion, as Ido frequently, desperately -anything to take my mind off the silliness that pervades our capital in apresidential election season (OK, the silliness is there all the time, but especially in an election year). Gentleman Farmer. Barney BEUKER is living the genteel life on six idyllic acres 20 miles northeast of Memphis, where he and Caren live with their ve children, who range in age from 21 to 3. Barney’s sort of agentleman farmer/rancher, tend¬ ing to twin crops of wild onions and weeds and riding herd on apassel of moles. When he’s not plowing the hillside behind ateam of mules -no, wall, that’s an¬ other famous Tennessean -Barney’s an A-300/310 rst of cer for FedEx. Other '81ers winging packages to you and me are Vince YASAY, acaptain on the A-300/ 310; Lionel TRUJILLO, who’s a727 rst of cer living in El Paso; and Greg KNIGHT, who’s rst of cer on awidebody. Stealth Scribe. John FITZGERALD doesn’t know it yet but he wrote most of this issue’s column. He’s ying for American out of Chicago O’Hare as a rst of cer on aSuper 80. John’s logged 5,800 hours in 8V4 years there and gures it’s just about time to move on to another cockpit. He lives in the southeast Wisconsin country¬ side, where he and wife Kim homeschooi their four kids and look forward to wel¬

coming number ve in October, The two oldest boys are following in mom’s wake as pretty hardcore swimmers -Kim (Hillen) set anumber of USAFA swimming records before she resigned from ’82 after two-degree year -and recently racked up nishes ranging from 1“ to 7* in the Ystate swimming nals. John’s still in the Reserves and as an Academy liaison of cer has the increasingly dif cult task of steering quali ed kids to USAFA.

John ran into Marc LUIKEN and Suzanne and their ve kids (is ve arequirement

no one told me about?) two months ago at O’Hare. They’re still at RAF L^enheath

where Marc’s asquadron commander; they also home-school and John reports that Suzanne is quite an inspiration for lots of the other moms at their wing. Marc’s Ops of cer is John FAGNANT, as previously reported in this space. Marc, John and John were all Jedi Knights together; that cadet squadron -along with 37,38, and 40 -no longer exists, and John notes that this was just the rst in along string of casualties he left in his wake: “Marc, John and Iwere in CS-39 together and Iunderstand that it’s recently been decommissioned. That’s okay, in fact, 1guess consistent, since the AF has closed my UPT base (Willie), my RTU Squadron doesn’t y F-11 Is (the 389* at Mountain Home), RAF Upper Heyford is now used as agiant parking lot for Rover cars and trucks (yes, the hardened shel¬ ters, Victor Alert area, runways, taxiways, et al), and ‘my’ old jet, F-111 tail #032, of the 79th TFS, is pushing up daisies in the desert at Davis-Monthan. Ihope this

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Classmates who served as squadron commanders at Hill AFB in the past year: Lt

Cols Don "Crunch” Chapman (back left), 514 FITS; Kurt "NUBES”Neubauer (back right), 34 FS; Jeffrey “Weird"Harrel (front right), 421 FS;and Randy “Spidey"Peterson (front left), 388 OSS. All served together as part of “Team Hill".

And Finally... Heard from Mike ROSS, who’s been out of the Air Force since ’87 and is aVP for Smith-Barney in Bakers eld, CA. Mike’s the rst member of our class to join the Sabre Society; he and his wife, Elizabeth, greatly enjoy their events and encourage others to join (info is on the AOG web site). Re ecting on arecent Check¬ points column, Mike wrote, “Most of us in business have problems that transcend

their industries. Boards of directors exist so companies can get insight from leaders in other areas. Reading through your column Ihad agreat amount of interest in swapping notes with... others in other businesses. With the Internet, can we come

up with some way to create aforum with other ’81ers to get ideas on their successes and failures... Iguess my theme is that more and more of us are out of the military and the de nitions of success have changed. Those of us that have been out for

quite awhile may be able to help out others. Most of us are happy too!” The Internet’s aresource we haven’t yet harnessed as aclass. Whether for the kind of networking Mike envisions or as ageneral forum for staying in more fre¬ quent touch than the quarterly updates Checkpoints affords, aclass web site would

be agreat resource. This will be particularly true as our 20* reunion approaches. Of course, that means an investment of time and probably some other assets on someone’s part, but there must be some altruism and community spirit out there somewhere. If anyone has the volunteer urge or ideas about what aclass web site

should look like, by all means pass them on. Don’t Make Me Use This Rolodex... Pickings are alittle slim this issue; Itake full responsibility and intend to rectify the situation. So if you don’t welcome my late-

night telephone assaults inquiring as to your whereabouts, launch apreemptive e-mail strike and let me know what’s new and exciting in your life and others’. Undoubtedly there have been numerous PCSs this summer -let’s hear about 'em! And don’t forget your class scribe when you mail those holiday letters. Send pho¬ tos too; if you don’t. I'll be forced to print pictures of the classmate Isee in the mirror every day and believe me, no one wants that. Hope all are well -Beat Army! Beat Navy! Jim Ratti 6329 Pheasant Valley Road Dayton, OH 45424-7100 Home: (937) 609-3792/DSN: 785-9660X281 rattijm@mindspring.com h t t p : / / w w w. u s a f a 8 2 . o r g Percent members: 36

Hello Redtags! Well, we made it! Ellen and Iare back in Dayton once again. If you’re particu-

larly observant, you’ll notice something familiar about the address above. That’s right, it’s the same one we had ve years ago, the last time we were stationed at Wright-Pat. We had renters {wonderful renters!) in the house, and timing of their PCS move corresponded pretty well with ours, so we slid right back in. Our veday drive from Edwards to Dayton was, for the most part, enjoyable. Pluses — gorgeous scenery through Utah and Colorado; no rain anywhere. Minuses —a cat does NOT make agood traveling companion! Pretty nice to be “home” again. I’m working as aprogram manager in the Training Systems Product Group (we probably bought the simulators you trained in) after spending May-Aug at the Advanced Program Manager’s Course at Ft Beivoir. Igot anote from Kay GROSINSKE, picking up on my earlier comment about the 20-year reunion coming up fast. She offered to help as necessary, and is already working to line up one activity that’s sure to be popular with ex-Catholic Choir members —singing at Mass on Sunday with Mr. L. (Ed Ladoucer) directing. She’s greased the skids with the current director, Gary DeKler, but more info will follow. I’ll start publishing details on the web for this and other activities as Ilearn of them. Keep me posted! Tamara SENZ sent an e-mail telling me that Marc and Judy (MARTINI) ABSHIRE are back in D.C. Marc is the speechwriter for Whit Peters, the SecAF. Angus SIMPSON sent aquick note to say he “walked toward the light” and joined scads of old friends by accepting ajob with United. The Denver training center is like reunion central, bringing classmates and ying buddies back together again. Mike SINISI wrote just as he was departing Air War College at Maxwell for Tampa to work on the CENTCOM/J6 Staff. He says fellow AWC classmate Chris (INGRAM) CLIFTON will be headed to JFCOM/J6. Mike took aregional studies trip to Vienna Austria, Sophia Bulgaria, Bucharest Romania, and Budapest Hungary during his academic tour and had awonderful time. He’s still into running, having taken 4* overall in a ve-mile run, and is now old enough to be in the “Masters” category. Yikes! But he’s still young enough to have a21-month-old son (Daniel) whose

looking for aplace to retire... Rives also proved that he has too much time on his

prowess with words has Mike believing Shakespeare recitations are just around

getting psyched for the reunion! Be safe, Ratman

hands, pointing out that the photo on the cover of the last Checkpoints issue was backwards! 1have to admit, on closer inspection. I’ll have to agree. It is back¬ wards! One clue is standing at parade rest with the ri e in the left hand. See if you can

nd others and send me an e-mail.

Here are acouple tidbits Igleaned from other e-mails. Mike FRITZ is ying ¬

les again with Chris BROYHILL, Mike FRANCE, Jim HARKINS, Randy LANE and Randy O’CONNOR at Luke. PhD-equipped Steve PLUNTZE is the deputy head of the Aero Dept at the Academy but stays current in the F-16 and teaches at the Test Pilot School from time to time.

While Iwas at the Advanced Program Manager’s Course, my class went to Capi¬

tolHillforadaytoseethelegislativeprocessatwork,hopingtogainsomeinsist

into how our acquisition programs are affected by law and politics. To some ex¬ tent it was like watching sausage being made —you don’t really want to know how it’s done! But one bright spot was ameeting 1arranged with Heather WIL¬ SON, the Republican Representative from the P" District in New Mexico. As you m a v recall, she was elected in the summer of ’98 in aspecial election when the incumbent fell ill. Heather has been involved in politics and government since she was in the Air Force, serving on the National Security Council staff, so the

opportunity to serve in Congress was naturally appealing, even if unexpected. She’s been exceptionally active, introducing numerous bills and serving on the Commerce and Select Intelligence committees. We had anice visit, and it was a real kick seeing aclassmate in such aposition.

Ialso had the opportunity to visit the Library of Congress, and Ilooked up Tom

StTVESTER’s aviation-related novel “Descent”, and found it after avery brief

search. Pretty cool! Unfortunately, Icouldn’t locate Sue (GRANT) GUNNING’S

romance novel called “Once aPirate”. Oh well, 1guess the Library of Congress just isn’t very romantic!

Well, that’s it for this installment. Keep the electrons owing, and start now

t h e c o r n e r.

Joe BENNAN wrote to make an appeal for donations to the Daniel S. Sullivan Memorial fund. As you’ll recall, our classmate Dan SULLIVAN was killed in an F-

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15 crash just three years after graduation. Anumber of his friends established the fund in his memory, and it directly supports the Academy’s Big Brother/Big Sister’s Club. During the past 15 years, it has funded their annual Christmas party, and this past February, it covered the costs of aclub outing to Mt. Asia. If you would

520 Ramona Ave.

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like to contribute to this worthwhile cause, please mail your donations to the Daniel S. Sullivan Memorial fund, in care of the Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, USAFA CO 80840-4475.

While I’m on the subject of contributions, two other things come to mind. First, we’ll want to present aclass gift to the Academy during our upcoming reunion. It’s not too early to start oating ideas for what that gift should be, and perhaps to

be setting alittle money aside in your budgets to make acontribution to it. Also, the Association of Graduates can always use your help with donations to the Acad¬

emy Fund or to the Sabre Society, Aquick scan through any given issue of Check¬ points turns up myriad examples of cadet leadership, airmanship and enrichment programs the AOG has funded over the years. With our ever-shrinking defense budget, the Academy has to rely more heavily than ever before on the AOG’s (and therefore on your) generosity to maintain the high standards we’ve come to ex¬

pect of the institution. I’d ask you to seriously consider acommitment to making regular donations to your association. These tax-deductible contributions can t well into your charitable giving plan, and give you the satisfaction of knowing you’re helping some of America’s nest young men and women develop into the leaders of tomorrow’s Air Force.

Tim COLLINS sent an e-gram from Kunsan where he’s the new Ops Group com¬

So, don’t ask me why, but Iwas trying to describe this scene from BCT to aguy who works at the ad agency with me, and Irealized at some point that no matter how well you tell the story, you just had to be there to understand. Which you probably do, if you’re reading Checkpoints. Anyway, the tale Iwas attempting to relate dealt with the time the cadre dudes were showing us how to wax a oor (a

bizarre concept in itself) and Iasked what you were supposed to do while the drying, before the grand nale of the buf ng took place. The 2-degree that was demonstrating said, “Well, 1guess you and your roommate can just sit up on the sink and take ablow." And being way unfamiliar with that term at that point, Iwas thinking, man, what is this guy talking about and what am I wax

was

doing here?

Okay, so much for the intro. Into the nitty gritty of the news. Drew “Stain”

WACKER, who calls me ‘’Stu Daddy” ‘cause he likes the sound of it, sent me a

Christmas card in March to say he’s ying 777s from D.C. to Europe for United,

following astint out of Seattle on aTokyo and Bangkok run. Drew’s currently settling into his bachelor pad manse near Palmer Lake, in the new grad Mecca

mander for the S"* Fighter Wing. He left Seoul in April, having completed his tour as the exec to the deputy commander of U.S. Forces in Korea. Drenda and the

of Monument. He claims to have an authentic SAR set up in his house to make ex-cadets feel at home when they drop by to play foosball or watch MASH r e -

kids will return to Savannah, GA during Tim’s tenure with the Wolipack. He wanted me to pass along that any '82er can expect the royal treatment at Kunsan, so stop by and give him ashout. 1heard from his wife (Trish, ‘83) that Jon KIMMINAU is quickly closing in on his PhD. AU the class work is complete; “all” he has left is his dissertation. But since

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they’re expecting again (a boy this time), Iexpect there’ll be afew distractions that

documented in the photo.

The Stain relates that Spence “Ex-83” Stefanic is now asoftware guru on the

verge of cashing in his stock options and is currently working for Nextel in Herndon, VA. Drew, Spence and Tom “Bootmaster” KING recendy de ed court orders and got together to wax oors and listen to Todd Rundgren albums, as

vrill ensure he uses the full year he has left!

Mike BERRY, who you may remember took the 15-year retirement to work for Boeing, wrote to tell me his daughter Shaun is attending college at Kenyon in OH. He’s enjoying the work at Boeing’s propulsion facRity just north of Los Angeles. Dave FROHMAN surfed the '82 web site and sent in what 1think is his

rst-ever

update for this column. He lives in Las Vegas now and ies 747-200S for North¬

west out of Honolulu. He ew F- 16s in the Air Force, and served with the 612* Tac

Fighter Sq at Torrejon as well as with the 65* Aggressor Sq at Nellis.

A1 GOARD let me know that Tom SCHLUCKBIER’s squadron (the 66* CES at Hanscom) won AFMC’s 1999 Best CE Unit award. A1 says Tom has “accomplished

some really excellent things” there. As for Al, Igathered from his signature block

that he’s the AC2ISRC liaison to Electronic Systems Center, also at Hanscom, Scot SHIER and his quints are getting more famous by the minute! He sent me

an e-mail in May telling me they’d be on the Ricki Lake show the next day! Imissed

the show, but Scot said it was actually rather wholesome, not the usual fare. They had ve other families with quints and quads on the show, discussing the aspects of raising such large and “instant” famiUes.

Tim HOPE (11* Sq) is another rst-time writer who found us on the web and sent in awelcome update. Tim lives in Kent WA (suburb of Seattle) and ies for Alaska airlines, having separated in 1990. He did astint in the Alaska Guard from

1990-1994, and has awife named Kiyomi who he met and married 14 years ago while stationed at Yokota. They have four children. Rives DUNCAN dropped aline and said he and his wife, Jan, are back in C-

Springs, this time serving at Schriever AFB. They bought ahouse on 18 acres of land, and plan on selling off acouple parcels of ve acres each. Sooo, if you’re

Drew Wacker, Tom King and Spence Stefansic give new meaning to the term “triple threat"

Kevin “Cadet Death” CANNON (his own self-in icted nickname, incidentally)

e-mailed me awhile back to let us know he’s not only ying 767s out of New York for United -he’s also the USAFA liaison of cer/Mlnority Affairs coordinator. Ca¬

det Death, who should probably be called “Civilian Death” at this point, reports he found Wade “Stolen Shrub” LUJAN hanging out in his new-hire class at United. John ANDRESHAK, who has the cool e-mail moniker of “spinalshak,” e-mailed

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at the Bexar County Medical Society, which sounds like apseudonym for some sinister organization, doesn’t it? Dennis left the AF ayear or two ago to work with Paul as aconsultant for KPMG in San Antonio. 1can’t say for sure, but I'm guess¬ ing KPMG isn’t aradio station. Got an extensive update from along-dormant Robert “Recondo Bob”

DRENSEK, who reports he got out of the AF in ’90, scant weeks before he could’ve used his Recondo skills dissin' bad guys in Iraq. He’s since ended up in Adrian, MI, at Merillat Industries, “the country’s largest manufacturer of kitchen cabi¬ nets,” as the corporate quality assurance engineer. He’s married to Christy and has three kids, Catherine (8), Paul (5) and Christopher (3). If you’re ever in the vicinity of Adrian, don your BDUs and camo and look Boh up. The secret pass¬ word is “bohica.”

Colin and Sophie MOFFAT nally got around to giving up their life of leisure, joining the world of parenthood with the arrival of Siana in May. The Mof Man dropped hy our bungalow in March to appropriate astroller, some baby clothes and acouple of bottles. Not baby bottles, though -Suntory scotch, baby! Mof and Ijust missed paths in the Philippines, He and Soph were there in No¬ vember and Noelle, Tori, Olivia and Iwere there in lanuary, visiting my in-laws in Cavite and Batangas. We all totally dug it and had ablast staying in Noelle’s mom’s ancestral home in Imus, eating obscure fruits and drinking Red Horse. Naturally, we got together with the ever-hospitable Mark and Sherry ABBOT in Makati for a Filipino feast before we left, ending the evening at amicrobrewery in amall that was later bombed.

AOG. Get in touch with him if you want to network, or if you just want to raid his fridge and drink all his beer. Alright, here’s an idea. Since I’m kind of short on news, Tm going to do a“blast

from the past” thing and put in aphoto from 20 years ago. Witness Bert “Ex-83” Schmeidler, whose real nickname I've got to censor, and Mike “No Metal on Flesh!” RAMPINO, circa 1980, hanging out by the unwittingly cool retro curtains of aca¬ det room somewhere in Vandenberg Hall. Those were the days, huh?

And speaking of timewarps, Dave Ruf ey was at Ski Cooper over spring break when he heard an oddly familiar voice calling his name. Despite the fact that

Dave was wearing aleopard-pattern Darth Vader-type ski helmet and full-length faux Dalmatian-skin duster. Bill “Ex-'83” ANONSEN recognized him, and nuked his duster with awell-aimed spray of slushy spring snow. Bill, who graduated with '84, is living in Colorado and ies for.., guess who? You know it’s gotta be either Delta or United. The answer will be published in the Summer, 2001 Check¬ points, if Iremember.

Okay, enough is enough. Send your cards, letters and whatever’s currendy on your fridge to Dave RUFFLEY, 4202A Muledeer Dr., USAFA, CO 80840-1137, or e-

mail him at dlrwy@compuserve.com. He’s sitting in front of his computer, waiting. Mike Jensen 12035 Milam Road

Colorado Springs, CO 80908 (719) 338-3570

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Great Responses! After my less-than-stellar performance (last issue), thanks to youlhopeto rebound with this issue. Many of you were “spammed” by me through aogmail.com, agreat way to keep in touch. Put together by Class of'63 grad Bill Wecker, it allows us to keep in touch as well as update our e-mail addresses with¬ out having someone else take the info and have to put it in, like Brett MAYHEW has been doing forever! Check it out! You can also update your aog information on their web site, www.aog-usafa.org. So now that it is easier than ever to update and keep in touch, there is “NO EXCUSE, SIR” for not doing so. Updates from our talented bunch; Iam continually impressed with the talent

of our class. The interesting and fantastic lives we lead. Iam already looking

Mark Abbott and Stu Pope on page 3of the drink menu, Makati, P.I. Iwas in Austin for the SXSW music fest in March, and looked around in vain for

Tom EVANS, now adenizen of that groovy burg. Tom’s running the U.S. opera¬ tions of aBrazilian software company after spending three years in Brazil. About ayear ago, he and Megumi, who’s Peruvian, tied the knot. Both Marcus “Eminem” MILLER and Stark “Raving Mad” DAVIS attended the wedding.

Speaking of Brazil, we can safely assume Curt SHELDON has left Rio by

and is doing whatever they do at NORAD these days. Curt's married and has two boys, ages nine and six.

Jon DURESKY, Dave RUFFLEY, Ray BLUST and Ihad acool four-way e-mail en¬ counter. We reminisced about our experiences as smacks in the now-defunct

forward to the 20-year reunion, and for most of us, we have to celebrate that mile¬ stone of our high school graduation this summer. Yes, it was June of 1980 when we were taken off the buses at the BOR, handed our Contrails, and began our journey of SAMls, IRIs, tours, and alifetime of friendships. What this article is: Ihope this article provides more than just an insight to what our classmates (at least those who are mentioned) are doing. It is important for me to provide amedium for us to acknowledge our past, enjoy our present, and always work toward our future. That being said —time for the updates! Arnie GAUS is ying with Southwest, after ying U-2s at Beale for the previous six years. His wife, Megan, and he have two children. Josh and Abby. Bradley ROBERT is also out west

ying F- 15s with Steve RUSIN at Mountain Home. Beau JOHNSON

ies for Delta, and lives in Denton, IX with wife, Mary, and two children as well. Kyle LAMPELA is going to y the big C-5s at Travis, with wife, Jill. They have three children, and he still has that Corvette from yesteryear. While he was out at SHAPE,

he worked with Jean TRAKINAT. 0-6 Terry FEEHAN is working as aSecretary of

Starship 19, collectively wondering whatever happened to our favorite keeper of the marching beat, Duane “Ex-‘83” Taylor. Jon just had to point out that abunch of zoom-wads from the Class of 2003, exactly 20 years behind us, crashed his pad during asquadron sponsor trip afew weeks ago. Does that make you feel old, or

Defense Fellow with Anderson Consulting for the next year in Chicago, Beth (JENKES) and Mark GUTERREZ are living in Omaha with son Dan. Mark is amanager in software development back in his hometown there. Paul KELLNER was out doing airshows in Europe when last we checked, while wife, Bobbie, holds

Jon also relates that he’ll be spending the summer at Prince Sultan AB and Ramstein, respectively, as will Pat “Perma” FROST (but with the order reversed). Pat’s the chief of Stan/Eval in the 40'“ Airlift at Dyess, while Jon’s the ADO.

Center, and is now training at Tinker for the AWACS. There he ran into Chris

what, man?

Dave “Treat Me” RUFFLEY says Ken “Tie Me Up In” KNOTTS is leaving USAFA to

work the Russia desk at J2 in the Pentagon. Ithink aRussia desk is some sort of

of ce surplus item the Russians are selling to raise cash —you've seen the cata¬ logs. Dave also reports Sue (LUDKE) SCJJWEISS is taking over the Honor Of ce at

down the fort with their children. Bill WALKOWIAK was working at the AF Safety

CORDES, who is slated to be the OG/CC for AWACS in Alaska. Bob TAYLOR and

Terri KATEIN are coming back to the states. After three years in Germany, Terri will be the Sq CC of the 90“' Communications Squadron at EE, Warren AFB, WY.

Pat “Coonass Militia” RYAN is leaving the unit there, while he continues to y with United out of Miami. He and wife, Teresa, and daughter Alia are now living in Niceville, FL,

USAFA, and may be taking hostages, so stay clear. Tom KRISE and Jeff BALL are

Bob SMITH is headed to the Pentagon to work as part of the Air Staff. He and his

teaching English and engineering mechanics, respectively. Ann (GETTLEMAN)

family now call Stafford, VA home. We found Rita MASTROVITO working with Ford Motor Company and looking forward to the days of becoming a“stay-at-

CAMPBELL teaches poll sci. Dave himself is closing on ahouse in, where else.

Monument, and is now on the board of directors of the Rampart Chapter of the

home mom” with her three kids. Mark MAVITY nished ayear at the Kun as chief of Aerospace Medicine, and is off to Cannon AFB, to be the chief there. Now board certi ed in Aerospace and Preventive Medicine. (We that!)

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Scott GOUNAUD gave us some good updates. He is at DFW with American. With wife, Lee, they have alittle girl, Nathalie. Jim MACAULAY is afull-time re¬ servist at Barksdale in the A-10. John HANLON is back on the East Coast ying with United out of Newark. Always living the rough life is Mike BURNS, “dozen for dollars” on the MD-11 with American. San Paulo, Santiago—you get the picture. Tim SAFFOLD is at DM ying with all the squadrons as Wing Chief of Stan Eval.

Wife, Cheryl Meyers-Saffold, Dr. Meyers-Saffold presented Tim with ababy boy back in March. Needless to say, Tim is just elated to have her and son, Timothy

Norbert Schmeidler and Mike Rampino share aconspiratorial glance, c. 1980.

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to say Wayne SUMPTER is doing his residency in Aerospace Medicine at Brooks

Robert there. Congrats “Big-Un”. Send me to Altus! Thus was the batde cry of Bob COX. Needless to say he is a native of Altus and spent 10 out of the last 12 years there. Wife, Debbie, due Au¬ gust 2000, with #3 and their other two girls, are being forced to PACAF in Hawaii —something about the needs of the Air Force. “C-DIN” Chris DiNenna is at HQ Air Combat Command, after ying Eagles the past 11 years. Jim BURLINGAME is out to Nellis with wife, Debbie, to y UAVs, Tony HUTFLES is on his way to aoneyear remote to Saudi. Scott KENDALL had to suspend his quest for the Reform Party Nomination in January but is stUJ very active in the political scene.

Tricia lled In quite nicely for Steve GROENHEIM while he was out ying around Germany (they are stationed at Charleston with their three boys). She reported Kerm and Marcia GETZ are also there, as is Sam COX, who is commander of one of the C-17 squadrons. Thanks, Tricia. Karl ALVAREZ works for the EPA in D.C.,

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with Katie and Jonathan. He will be running in the Marine Cops Marathon in October and is raising money for AIDS while doing so. Randy PUHRMANN ies for Delta out of Atlanta, wife, Natalie, is due in July. Buddy LIGON was part of tbe

Spring eld, VA 22150

“purge” of ‘84 grads who did not make LTC,

E - m a i l : U S A FA 1 9 8 5 @ a o l . c o m Percent members: 32

ying E-8s at Robins AFB, GA. Speak¬

ing of which, what was that all about? Must be some new quota. Carol CAUGHEY (MILLER) ies for AA and lives with husband, Bryce, in Salem, OR. Dr. Kevan WONG is getting out to pursue the civilian sector in Dallas, TX

Marv JONES is over in Denmark working for NATO. Gary HENRY, Anally re-tracked down the woman of his dreams (Heather) after giving her his wrong phone num¬ ber, got married and is now they are expecting their rst this October. They are now up at the Pentagon. Good work! Wayne MCCLARY is still only an hour away and Inever see him; he is in Aurora, CO as an actuarial analyst for Guaranty Na¬ tional Insurance Co, with wife, Jodie, and sons, Alexander and Daniel. Robin SPELLS (BOYD) is still loving life out in California. When not working or raising

her two kids, she nds time to serve as youth director for her church. Way to go, Robin!

Remember Beyond the Chapel Wall? Well, Ido and it is good to hear from Troy CARLYLE, living in Wilmington, NC, owns an ad agency and alittle blues club “the Rusty Nail.” 1hope that by our next reunion, we can put that lm into adigital format for all to enjoy! Brad KENWISHER is vrith UAL and got married on June 12 this year to Gini! Congrats. Nick MATSCHEFTS has been out since 1992, and after the seminary has taken asmall Baptist church in northern Michigan. Anne (FOLEY) and Chris BOWMAN are out at Nellis where Chris is the commander of

the Strike Eagle Division at Weapons School. Ann substitute teaches where she gets to use some of those survival techniques. Her brother in law and our very own, Ed HEIERMAN is asoftware engineer with Abbott Laboratories. Chuck RATH is the assistant air attache to Hungary, married vrith two children. Saw Dave HOOK, who completed atour as the assistant air attache to the Ivory Coast. Jeff GUEST is aT-1 IP at Vance, and Dave MULLINS is at the Pentagon. Thanks for the update. Chuck.

Chip THOMPSON is also at the Pentagon waiting to get back to the Viper. Rob PUCKETT, spent his last year as an ALO in Korea, but will be heading back to y¬ ing the B-52S this fall. Jerry DAVIDSON is another of the gang out of Charleston, although just in the Reserve capacity; he also ies for Northwest. Wife, Kari, is there to take care of their two boys when he is on the road. Lance NJTSCHKE updated us on Scott SALMONS. Scott is off to Whiteman AFB and the B-2. Lance noted Rich CALL is in Albuquerque, ying for UPS, Ken THALMANN and family are in San Antonio, and Ed RUTHERFORD

ies for DHL, while living in Morrow,

OH with his family. Thanks, Lance. Drew FLOOD ies for UAL, lives in San Diego also

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ies T-38s in the Reserve. Jon “Monster” HUSS is over in ITALY now with his

family. From the Helo World: Brad Webb is the ops of cer for the 20“* Special Ops Squad¬ ron at Hurlburt, and Alan BRIDGES vrill be the ops of cer at the 55 P' SOS at

Kirtland. Keith MCCREADY has been the ops of cer at the 58* Training Support Squadron at Kirtland as well. Ken ARTEAGA is ying the UH-IN for the Special Ops SQ at Hurlburt.

Still going strong: Howard HAYES ies for Northwest and F-16s for the Duluth ANG; married with three children. Chris FISHER loves life up at UAL in Denver vrith vrife, Nanette, and their two children, Stephanie, and Adam. DanBLAETTLER

is off to Australia to work as the program director for an Australian acquisition program. Robin and tbe kids are excited about tbe opportunity of tbe new assign¬ ment. SteveWACKER is working for GE in Atlanta. Brad LISEC has given up com¬ muting (weak) since vrife, Laurie (’86), got ajob at the Pentagon. Barb (LALLI) BRENNAN is still living in New Hampshire with husband, Alan, and two children (JohnPaul and Christine) Don MULDER is using that engineering stuff we learned about at USAFA in Holland, MI; Making fuel nozzles for all of the big companies. Sue and their three children having agreat time as well. Rita MASTROVJTO also saw Dianna FIGUEROA DYLEWSKJ who is now at

Kirtland, after being atWPAFB. Scott DICKMEYER is out at Flight Safety in Wichita, and ies the ‘135 in the Reserves at McConnell. He was very happy to hear from Bill WYCHE, the “assignment king” who got ajob as SQ/CC at the survival school. With Gayle, they have anice little place to house their horses, dogs and felines, right outside of Spokane. Chris ROWZEE is at Little Rock as afull-time Guards¬ man since Dec '98. Steve FLACH is up in Minnesota, hunting and shing when not working for United Defense on the Crusader Program The purpose: If Iforgot to mention someone’s e-mail, 1apologize. Igot agreat response this time and really appreciate it. 1also got agreat e-mail from Joe LEAVENGOOD from up in Idaho, enjoying the quieter life vrith his family. Joe brought to my attention, and Iagree vrith him, that we have gone through apro¬ cess which makes us different from the “norm,” that we do know right from wrong and are teaching our kids those same values. We need to recognize the fact, which if you set your agenda to what you feel is right; you may be looked upon differ¬ ently. Nevertheless, it is because of who we are that we can enjoy some of life’s greatest bene ts and the bene t of our class, and classmates. We have agreat class, and it bothers me to have alow membership rate. Here is what Iplan to do:

1) Iam looking for someone to take over as class scribe. It is very enjoyable to read all of these messages, but Ifeel achange of perspective and writing is due. 2) Iwill continue to serve the class as an advocate to increase membership and to begin

coordinating events such as our 20-year reunion, and away of ensuring we can help our classmates (and their families) should they have aneed. So if interested, please let me know. It takes about one hour amonth to do this. Thanks—Jens

Visit the AOG Web Site: www.aog-usafa.org

Hi everyone. Ihope you all had a m and safe summer. Brace yourselves—we have apretty short article this time. Iguess most of you were too busy to write an e-mail or send asnail mall. Well, Td better "get on with it” since the movers are due at our house anytime now. Ican verify that my job on the Air Staff is rm. Once Igot my orders, Itook Renee vrith me on one of my manyTDYs to the Washington, DC area so she could do some “house hunting” while Jwas working at the Pentagon. It really helped a lot. And Iwant to publicly thank George WEATHERSBY for having his realtor (Mrs. Nancy Marsh of Long &Foster) contact us because she did agreat job for us. Nancy found lots of places for us to look at and helped when we put in an offer on a tovrahouse in northern Virginia. Our new address will be 6410 Katherine Ann Une, Spring eld, VA 22150.

Ray HARRIS sent an e-mail vrith some pretty exciting news for our class. Ijust got the most recent Checkpoints today, and Isaw that you didn’t get avolunteer to put together an AOG web-site page for our class... so... Ivolunteer! Let me know whatyou want to do... etc. THANKS! Ray Harris. ’85 Best Alive! Thanks again Ray! I’ve written aletter to our class president (Scott VIPOND), of cially requesting that he appoint you in writing as our class webmaster, per AOG policy, to the AOG staff. m

Everyone please check out the other class web sites. See what you like, and don’t like, and pass on your ideas to Ray. Some sites have things like old Check¬ points articles so non-AOG members can still see what’s going on vrith their class¬ mates. If you’re an AOG member, of course, you get alot of other privileges in¬ cluding seeing what’s going vrith all of our fellow alumni and the Academy, in general, in the Checkpoints. An AOG membership has many other privileges, listed elsewhere in the magazine, too.

Iheard from David HUMBLET. He’s doing ne. He sent me an e-mail because wanted to write to Tom MAAS’ parents since be and Tom bad been pretty close at one time.

Mike “Digger” WELLS and his vrife, Carla, are doing ne. He sent anote to say that he changed his e-mail address but unknowingly bad acomputer virus at¬ tached to it. Icouldn’t open the attachment and when 1asked him about it, he told me to just delete it. So everyone should check for the message from Digger and delete the "prettypark.exe.” Isaw Jon SIMS and Freddy FREDERICK while Jwas on aTOY at the Pentagon in

June. Jon is working in HQ USAF/XOIR as the point of contact for exercises. Freddy out-procepsing from the Air Staff to go to in-residence PME. Until the next time... Best regards, Quintel Gary L. Burg 1740 11th St.

Langley AFB, VA 23665-1730

E-mail: gary.burg@langley.af.mil or Beaker90FS@aol.com

Home: (757) 865-4681/DSN: 574-9010 Percent members: 31

Bob did it again, great column with lots of information about our classmates. Unfortunately that leaves me with ahard act to follow but I’ll do my best. Here it is Father’s Day, one day from the deadline and Ihave no mailings/e-mails to pass along. Kevin YEOMANS passed me an e-mail back in January from Jon PUTNEY. Jon is doing aGermany tour these days and wrote, “Life is great in southern Ger¬ many. Live in alittle town called Heinstetten, work at CAOC-4 (NATO) Messtetten.

Injuly Imove to Ramstein andAIRCENT... but it vrill be called AIRNORTHbythen.” If you need Jon’s e-mail, give me ashout. Ialso received an e-mail from Don RAINES. He tried to get this in the last col¬ umn but didn’t have Bob’s e-mail address but old news is better then no news.

Don writes, “Just got the Dec ‘99 issue of Checkpoints over here in Saudi Arabia—

thought Jwould take afew minutes out of the day to send you aquick note. I’m halfway through aone-year tour here in the desert. Jwork in the Force Protection

Directorate of the 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force Southwest (9th ASETF-SW), which provides force protection advice and procedures to the com¬ mander, Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA). Lots of fancy words that means we run the force protection initiatives for Operation Southern Watch. I have seen only one other ‘86er in my rst seven months in the AOR. In August I went on atour of Saudi, Kuwait, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain to get a rsthand look of the AOR. Iran into Darren WILSON at A1 Salem Air Base in

Kuwait. Darren was doing 120 days at “The Rock” as head of safety. I’m sure he had his hands full —safety hazards in the tent city compound had to number in the hundreds. In June Irotate out of here —and hopefully never come back —

heading back to Northern Virginia and another assignment with the National Re¬

connaissance Of ce. Northern Virginia vrill seem like living in fantasyland after a year in beautiful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.” Idid receive aquick e-mail address change from Steve JASZAI. He writes, “I’ve

recently upgraded to CS2000, not sure If that’s agood idea yet. Ihave anew e-mail address (e-mail scribe for new address) and am trying to have the old mail for¬

warded, so Iapologize if Ihaven’t responded to any of your e-mail recently.” I guess that brings me down to the news I’ve accumulated over the last six months. I’ve been working the presidential advance agent detail too with Mike CLARK and

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community." And lastly, Wayne heard from David ABERCROMBIE and his wife at Christmas. They are currently living in Maryland. Here’s agreat photo of Wayne and his beautiful family: Wayne, wife, Toshie, and daughters Yuri (7) and Mina (3).

is moving (PCA) to the physiological training unit at Langley where he will head up the altitude chamber section. Jeff HENRY nally got married again on the 12th

of May. He now splits his loyalties between the Air Force and Army, as his new wife is amajor in the Army. He should be at his joint assignment in Ramstein, Germany by the time this hits the street.

Idid get one late e-mail to pass along from Jay HUMMBLEBAUM. Jay writes, “Life at HQ has been going OK. Been carrying a13 HC here at the base course

(Langley AFB. Sometimes break away for intramurals. Just got back from aweek at USAFA attending the MORS (Mil Ops Research Society) Symposium. Lots of

meetings, but lots of golf, too. Won longest drive in the MORS tournament. All work and no play... Went hiking up Eagle’s Peak and found areally cool piece of wood up there, and yes, Ilugged it all the way dovm the mountain, and even crashed

and burned with it. Its now in my living room. Went to aSkysox game with Bill and Kelly DEMASO. He’s moved from being 25th SQ AOC to the Supt’s exec. Saw Ty ALEXANDER on the Terrazzo. That boy needs to break dovm and buy new pants! He must have been four inches shorter back in '86. Igave him arash of

grief for lookin’ like adork (maybe he can’t help it!) C-ya! Well, not the longest column but at least it's not awash. Hopefully my next writing at Christmas will be more informative and have aphoto or two. Bob will once again take the next issue so e-mail your info to him. Hope everyone had a great summer and has an even better fall.

Sharon (Hullinger) Giletti 727 Sweetridge Road Prattville, AL 36066 E-mail: sgiletti@hotmail.com Percent members: 32

Igot another great Christmas picture from Mike and JoEllen STEWART. They’re still in Washington, DC. Mike says, "I’m as busy as ever. I’ve been working as an evaluator pilot since the summer and it seems I’m the “only guy available" when the scheduler calls at the last minute. But I’m having alot of fun and have been ying to some neat places including Johannesburg, Berlin, and the thrill of my ying career—Dallas Love Field. The Air Force still sees t to send me away for 30-day TDYs, but at least they’re getting better with the locations. This year Ispent the month of October in “hellish’’ conditions in Belgium. Ishould be able to fend off an assignment for another year or more, so don’t look for change-of-address cards any time soon.” Oh, if only we all could be so lucky! JoEllen has been busy too with the kid’s hectic schedules and has started her ovm business as aStampin’ Up demonstrator —her cards are beautiful! Here’s acurrent picture of the STEWART family: Mike, JoEllen, Erica (8), and Matthew (6).

Hello again everyone! Ijust have to start this edition out with abig congratula¬ tion to all the '87 ACSC students who were down here in Montgomery. Watching my husband go through this past year, Ihave alot of admiration for those of you who have made it through this year of academics. It may have not been much compared to what we achieved at USAFA, but Iknow, myself included, many of us have not cracked abook that wasn’t on the bestseller list since graduation. Hats off to you all and good luck to those of you who are headed this way for the 2001 ACSC class (Mark RUSE being one that Iknow of). Here is asnapshot of afew '87 grad ACSC students who made it to an early morning photo shoot.

Iheard through the grapevine (Ray WRIGHT) that Kurt SPRANGER is out of the AF now and is ying for the airlines. Ray and Rachel WRIGHT came through Mont¬ gomery to visit on awhirlwind tour of the South and their old stompin’ grounds. We had ablast! Our kids were very excited to see each other again. Benjamin and Jackson are just the greatest little boys and they’re quite the brain trust too. Idon’t

know what Rachel eats when she’s pregnant, but these boys just come out talking up astorm —maybe it’s being around Ray, He kept us up late each night with hilarious stories reminiscing of school and pilot training days —the painted-blue,

road trip motor home with silver lightning bolts painted on the sides and the mega¬ Picmred are Dan O’CONNOR, Tracy JONES, Andy COGGINS, Kevin HIGHFIELD, James CASHIN, Mark SANTICOLA, Don SHAFFER, and Jamie CROWHURST. I

apologize if Igot any of you mixed up or misspelled your names. There are many more '87 grads attending the 2000 ACSC class—apparendy, the ones pictured are the only morning people. Now on with some updates. Wayne FISHER says hello from Hurlburt Field, FL.

He’s stationed at the 18 Flight Test Squadron. He says he’s “working with great

people and can’t throw trash in the garbage without hitting agrad on the way there.” Wayne says that Paul CALTAGIRONE is in the MAJCOM training of ce.

has done some marvelous things that really aid the mission planner and ying

quali cation training as an E-3 aircraft commander and is headed to the 964*.

softball team with Wayne’s wife, Toshie, and won the championship. Mike is with the Reserves in Montgomery (this may not be the correct location). Wayne had a

few other updates as well. Jerome WATKINS is out of the service, living in Boise,

He was lucky enough to have Craig for his checkride! Steve SCHIFANI had just arrived on base when 1got Craig’s note. Steve PCSd from Laughlin as aT-37 IP and is going through E-3 requali cation training. Dan PHILLIPS is currently serving a four-year, controlled tour at Nellis AFB as the range engineer for the Red Flag Com¬ plex —apretty big job I’d say. He’s also spending what little free time he has working on his master’s through the University of Phoenix. Matt BAMPTON is at McClellan AFB overseeing the close of the ALC there and nally. Dale HOLLAND is aPAVE Low IP at Kirtland AFB. Thanks for the info Craig! 1received afew short hellos from various classmates. Wayne WILKINS and his family (wife and three kids) are livingin Richmond, VA. He’s doing very well. Wayne

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BOHLA is here also and is the AOC for CS-19. Tom KAUTH (AOC for CS-27) will be

ID, and is ying for FEDEX and the Guard. Paul HASTERT is also out of the AF, and is ying for in the Reserves. Wayne says Paul is “still handy with acomputer and

of areal estate business and is still agreat athlete. She played on the same women’s

sports bachelor pad at Columbus. Unfortunately, for the sake of many reputa¬ tions Ican’t print much of what was divulged. Ray and Rachel are living in Massachusets now and Ray is still selling drugs for P zer. Igot an e-mail from Dave STAMOS. He’s an AOC for 9"*' Squadron. He had alot of good gossip. Julie (JOYCE) WALKER, who’s currently CS-06’s AOC, will become the 34* Training Squadron Ops Of cer next year. David BLANKS (currently the AOC for CS-04) is going to be the 2"'* Group Deputy Group AOC next year. Bill DEMASO is the supt’s exec. He and his wife, Kelly, just adopted alittle girl. Bob leaving this fall to be the Logistics Squadron Commander in Saudi Arabia for a year. Dave will be the AOC for CS-09 for another year. He’s had agreat year so far. He and his wife had they’re fourth child in November and the cadets keep him pretty busy. Craig WILSON sent anote too. He’s currently an E-3 IP at Tinker AFB and works as the ADO in the 966th AACS which is the AWACS RTU (what is all that... BOR, ASAP, DOR, BDU ...) Anyway, Craig says that Jeff CROW is also an E-3 IP in the 964* and is the chief of their training ight. Bruce O’CAIN just nished initial

He’s also run into Mike MANION and Usa (GARROWAY) MANION. Lisa is an owner

Craig CADY. The duty is good but the TDYs can get abit too much with our com¬ mander-in-chief traveling as much as he does. With the upcoming election Idon't see it slowing down either. Itoo ran into Todd BEER during an in-and-out at Dulles lAP. Todd is aC-9 pilot for the president and says he likes the job and stability of working out ofAndrewsAFB. Iwork with Jim MCCLAIN but not much longer. Jim

know that Hans LAUDERBACH got married last fall to aFrench mademoiselle

(Sandrine) he met while stationed at Chevries, BE. He plans on separating from the AF early next year and he and Sandrine are expecting their rst child. What great news for them —congratulations! Congratulations also to Bruce and Tammy MCCLINTOCK who had their third

daughter on 5June. Alexandra weighed 7pounds, 8ounces and was 19 inches long. Bruce even got to catch “Alexa” and cut the cord! Their older girls, Brittany and Tori, are just beside themselves with delight and Tammy is doing wonderful. Bruce is

nished vrith SAAS and vrill be heading to Colorado Springs (they are

both from C-Springs!) this summer—great news all around for them. Mark Peters

From left are Chris, Elizabeth, and Bill Parker, Diana and Mike Plehn.

835 East Lamar Blvd.,#151

on both counts. Scribe), Idid use the words ‘Bill Parker’ and ‘Harvard’ in the same

Arlington, TX 76011

(817) 937-9696/Fax: (801) 327-0953 E-mail: pylt@home.com

Percent members: 35

Hi 88!

I’m distressed to report that the last issue had an incorrect phone number listed. If you tried to call, please note the number should be 817.937.9696. If you didn’t try to call, well then here’s your chance to update your trusty scribe! This may have contributed to my lack of inputs this time around, so 1hit the phone for aquick update from my friend Kip TURAIN who was still at Travis in the KC-10 world. Kip reports that he and Maria are looking forward to their 10-month tour at Maxwell for ACSC (they will have moved from Travis around July 10*). Kip’s former roommate, Dave ARGYLE, wife, Desiree, plus their two cherubs, are moving to Florida from McGuire AFB, NJ, Dave is still in the KC-10 Reserves at McGuire, but will be

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for Delta out of DFW. Hopefully commuting won’t be much of aproblem. He’sjust about to go to training to move from the 727 ight engineer position to the right seat of the MD-88/90. Bill BROOMHEAD (formerly of CS-06 as well) is living and ying for Delta out of Cincinnati. He and spouse, Lori, just had their rst child last

year, and Lori is currently working for the Cincinnati Aquarium. Not surprisin^y.

Bill is loving life as a727 ight engineer. Kari THYNE (also of the 6* CS) is enjoying life as aphilosophy instructor at the Academy. She’s really happy to be back. Rose KING is also at the Academy where she’s teaching English. Dan DENNIS is ying the 737 for Southwest. Eric WIDIGER (formerly at Nellis ying Remotely Piloted Vehicles) has separated as of June and is in training to y DC-9S for USA Jet Airlines out of Detroit. They specialize in keeping manufactur¬ ing plants, especially automobile plants, running with last minute deliveries of critical parts. Eric lives in Las Vegas. Shaun TURNER used to y C-5s, but switched to the KC-10 about three years ago. (Hmmm, as aformer KC-10 guy I’d have to guess he wanted to y amore reliable airplane?) He was BTZ to major two years ago and will be going to ACSC with Kip. Kip also mentioned that Vicki (HAST) BESECKER has been very helpful with info about the area and the move. She’s an ACSC instructor and has offered to help any ‘88ers en route to Maxwell. Jenny (SPERANDIO) HORNSTEN is aRight surgeon at Travis. Frank and Andrea SCHMUCK were in the C-141s at Norton when Frank was

sentence. Anyway, Ijust got agraduation announcement from him, so it’s really true. Good on ya. Bill! The Parker’s are headed to D.C. this summer as Bill will be working on the Navy staff at the Pentagon. We, too, are headed for the Pentagon this summer, if Ican ever nish my thesis at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies here at Maxwell. Iam going to XPXS on the Air Staff, which they tell me translates as Strategic Planning Policy and Strategy for those of us who can barely speak AF alphabetize.” Given Mike’s Navy segue, and my, ah, interesting, cadet exchange semester at USNA, 1really have to quote John Stuart Mill’s quote again (or was it someone else?): “Being in the Navy is like being in jail, but with the chance of being drowned.” Go Air Force!).

Lastly, my brother David PETERS has been abudget analyst at HQ ACC at Lan¬

gley for ayear or two now, but will be starting terminal leave in August since he turned down major last year. Assuming his new job (something in the nancial world of New York City, most likely) allows, he plans to tour Europe and Africa during his break. Well, that wraps up yet another issue from your hard-working scribe. As of yet I haven’t had any volunteers for an ’88 web site, so if you thought someone else was going to jump on it, well, they didn't ‘cause they’re probably waiting for you to volunteer! Call, write, fax, or page me and let’s see what we can generate for ’88! Keep in touch —Mark Paul W. Tibbets, IV 102 Chennault Ave.

Barksdale AFB, LA 71110 Home: (318) 456-3091 /DSN: 781-4528

E-mail: patibb@earthlink.net Home page: http://www.usafa89.com Percent members: 40

Hello classmates! Well, as you may have noticed, Imoved during the period from the last issue of Checkpoints to now. Angelle, Avery, and Imade the journey with my mom from Whiteman AFB to Barksdale AFB in June. r

given two options with Norton’s closure: PCS or pick up aReserve job. Frank went vrith the Reserve option and taught Boeing 737 ground school for awhile as well. He’s now ying for Southwest Airlines, although he’s been battling some possible GulfWar Syndrome effects from his C-141 time in the Middle East. My good friend Joe TEGTMEYER (who knows just about everyone in ’88) re¬ cently e-mailed with some info about his on/off/on-again PCS to Randolph. That part wilt come after this little blurb from aFebruary e-mail, however, as Isome¬ how misplaced this in my inbox before 1wrote the last issue. Sorry if it’s abit dated, but here goes nonetheless (with only abit of editing on my part). "1 know that you’re always looking for stuff for Checkpoints. Ijust got back from my Air Mobility Operations Course which takes place at the Air Mobility Warfare Center at Fort Dix/McGuire AFB. Imet up with Emily (WHITTAKER) BUCKMAN who is stationed at McGuire as the transportation squadron commander. She recently

got married and seems to enjoy her time here. She was abelow-the-zoner and has already nished up ACSC. Ialso ran into Jim REGENOR who came up from Charleston AFB. He worked for the director of Mobility Forces in the Joint Air Operations Center during Allied Force and gave us apretty neat brie ng on what

happened while the war was going on. He is married with kids and has just alittle

over two years before he can retire (he was enlisted prior to going to the Acad¬

emy) .Finally, 1ran into Chris RUSSELL who works in the nancial services squad¬ ron at Scott AFB. We all had agood time learning about how air mobility works from “over here to over there,” and all of the intricacies and headaches that hap¬

pen along the way.” Joe’s latest info regards his impending move ( nally!) to San Antonio: “Just a quick note to say that Iam now ahome owner in San Antonio, Texas! Ipurchased

avery nice house in the north-central area of the city. This is anew home and I thought that the area, the schools, and the neighborhood were fantastic, and the price was really great. I’ll send more later, but here is my new address: 419 Pease Hollow, San Antonio, TX 78258." Congratulations on your move Joe; it was along time coming! Mike PLEHN e-mailed with anote from the East Coast. “It’s been acouple of

years (already!), so Ithought I’d check back in with you. Diana and Iwere in Bos¬ ton this Spring, and while we were there we met up with Bill and Chris PARKER, and their children Jake and Elizabeth. Jake’s taking this picture, so you'll have to hound Bill if you want apicture of him. The Navy decided that Bill was in need of areal education after the Prep School and USAFA, so they sent him to Harvard for amaster’s degree. Yes, for the Preppies and Wolfpackers in the crowd (you qualify

Paul, Avery, and Angelle Tibbets at Barksdale billeting.

Iam working as the executive of cer for the 8AF/CC, Lt Gen Keck. AndYES, our beautiful daughter Avery was born 14 May (Mother’s Day) at 8:34 p.m. She weighed 7pounds, 4ounces, and was 19.5 inches long. You can check out all of Avery’s activity at our home page: http:// home.earthlink.net/~patibb. As you will see, we are very proud parents. On to the rest of the news!

Our rst letter came from Dennis and Nicole (KLEINSMITH) MORTON, who live in Dallas with their three kids John Paul (5), Nicole Katerine (3), and Jeremy

Joseph (almost ayear old). Dennis has been out for four years, and is working as a network engineer for Lucent. He designs and con gures the systems which man¬ age large enterprise data networks (similar to the size of aMAJCOM on up) as well as those which manage voice/data networks at service providers. Still aBIG geek, he has 11 computers, three Ethernet hubs, a rewall, and aDSL connection! Thanks for writing Dennis!

Next Iheard from Kurt RINKE, who updated us on 10 of our classmates. To make sure Idon’t lose the “ribbing” and “true” meaning behind his comments, I

will print Kurt’s letter as Ireceived it (with some minor editing to keep us out of trouble!!). So, here goes:

“I’m sitting here in northern Michigan (200 miles north of Detroit) AKA “God’s

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got out of the AF in '92 and went to graduate business school at Duke. He is now working for adirect/database marketing rm. Teri ALESCH sent anote to let me

Center. Jeff CASHMAN wrote to say he’s halfway through F-16 RTU with the Ari¬ zona Air Guard in Tucson. His ight commander and the guy who soloed him out in the Viper was classmate Jay GRIFFIN. Mary RAINALDI started RTU with Jeff, hut they’ve now split into separate tracks. Mary is staying in the Amodel and go¬ ing hack to the Duluth Guard when they nish in October, while Cash is training

viruses. He went to Fairbanks to attend Uof Afor amaster’s in creative writing

model squadron, and ies for Southwest. Cash is on military leave from Ameri¬ can Airlines, and has found that company to be exceptionally supportive of his continued military service. Col Rauschkolb from the AOG wrote to say Pete GERSTEN and his wife, Corey (WILDER), were out at USAFA recently and posed for this picture.

(say what?). The novel is in work... Ithink it’s got something to do with ying hot dog stands and afunnel. You’ll have to ask him... ‘Pat CRUPI (Crup’s): Pat and Lynne are now living in Portage, MI (200 miles south of God’s Country). Pat left active duty and is now ying for the Michigan National Guard (A- 10s) .He’s still considering the airlines, but enjoys his cushy major’s slot. Pat still spends his time listening to Rush L. and G. Gordon Liddy. He and Iroad tripped from Michigan to Colorado for the reunion and didn’t even try to kill each other once... though it was along walk from Lincoln, NE to home. It was good to

in the Cmodel to return the Vermont Air Guard. Kurt HEISER is an IP in the C

see most everyone.

‘Dave SERAGE (Surge): Dave and Heidi just moved to Tulsa, OK, Dave sepa¬ rated from the AF when they wanted to send him from EA-6s back to BUFFs. He just got picked up by United and has aslot with the Oklahoma Guard ying F-16s (good for him). Dave has mellowed in his old age and likes to sit back in the easy chair and smoke apipe as he spins ayarn with the children at his feet... ‘Steve YARBROUGH (Yarbs): Yarby separated as well (do you see atrend here?).

He got picked up by United and had to do his training during the reunion. Ihaven’t heard from him in ayear, but assume he’s doing well (call me!). Ibelieve he is also ying part-time with ATC out of Vance AFB, OK.

“Doug NIKOLAI (Popov): Doug was in Misawa trying to save his career by kiss¬ ing up to the vice wing commander (my old boss). Now that the Col. has retired, Doug is concerned he’ll be uncovered by the Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell policy so he’s

hiding out somewhere in the Western U.S, Isaw him at the reunion and he seems well (even if he is acheese head). Doug’s from Marshall eld, WI. ‘Pat BURKE (Dozer): Pat and Iwere roommates during our rst assignments to Eglin AFB, FL. Given that the location was ahardship, Iwas able to keep the old boy on the straight and narrow for the rst few years of his career. He vacationed in Little Rock for afew years and is now at L.A. AFB doing ‘Double Secret’ stuff. Pretty sure he’s on ‘Double-Secret’ probation at this point due to bringing his surf board into the of ce and setting off some alarms. ‘Paul BUZAS (S.H.): Paul has many names but when it comes to the initials S.H. he say’s ‘this one’s mine’. Paul separated from the AF and lives in northwest Wash¬ ington State doing the exact same job as aGSer. Twice rejected when he tried to re-enter the Academy to be agroup commander again, Paul now spends his days in asmall cabin in the mountains, typing letters and sending them to editors all over the country. Paul once said, ‘Creative Writing degree? “,’I don’t need no stink¬ ing degree...” then he went into some senseless babble, laughed at his own joke, and woke up on the lawn in the morning with the sprinklers on. Poor guy... ■Phu HERRE: Never really knew this guy at the Zoo but we had the same degree and got stationed together in Albuquerque (easy for me to say). Phil and Ispent three years trying to make the B-2 y on the OT&E test team as well as many other ‘Special Projects’ for HQ AFOTEC. Not sure why the U.S. Gov’t would chose two guys like us to trust, but what the hell. Phil is now in CSprings working advanced C3I stuff for U.S. Space Command. Thankfully, whenever we went TDYI always had Phil to be the DD and Icould read from the good ‘Book’ as we drove the streets (and sidewalks) ofBuffalo, NY (and others), Phil and Caron have around 6-10 kids

now and not sure when they’re going to stop. Phil’s avolleyball stud (minus the body and the hair), so maybe six is enough for ateam... ‘Brett BERG (Birdman): Brett is an honorary ’89er, but actually was able to ful ll all his academic requirements early and graduated in ‘87, Brett is the ‘glue’ that holds all the fella’s together. He now lives in Little Rock, AR and he’s back at the C130 schoolhouse dealing abucket of pain to any less-than-worthy student. He IS reman,

‘Kurt RINKE (aka Studmuf n): Well, you could say ‘I’ve been rode hard and put up wet’. Lost my PQ due to ared-green color de ciency and I’ve been running stop lights (and from the law) ever since. Ispent seven years active and then went through Cam-Brks to Texas Instruments in Dallas as a‘high power’ manager. Quickly real¬ ized how little Iknew about detailed circuit card design and EE (as well as the twostep), so Isuccessfully completed my project and left Dallas after two years to re¬ turn to Michigan (can Ihear ya’ll say YES?) as aconsultant for EDS working with General Motors. You know what they say about consultants, right? ‘Those that can... do. Those that can’t do... teach. Those that can’t teach... consult.’ The problem is, how do you turn down that much $$$ and have so little responsibility? I’m sure Kent LIETZAU and the 500 other Consultants at the reunion would agree. Anyway, enjoyed my stay at EDS, and when the opportunity came to purchase the family

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That’s it for now. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to write, and double-thanks to Kurt for being persistent and nding me despite outdated con¬ t a c t i n f o . Ta k e c a r e a n d G o d b l e s s .

Joseph C. Richardson 568 6th St. Circle

Robins AFB, GA 31098 Home: (912) 923-7602/DSN: 497-3446/7 E-Mail: Joseph.Richardson@robins.af.mil

Homepage: www.usafa90.com Percent members: 35

Greetings Most Honorable and Glorious Class, Itrust that these greetings nd you and yours in the best of spirits and health.

Things here in Middle Georgia are continuing to go well for my family and me. I’m still working as the wing executive of cer, probably for another six-nine months or so... then it’ll be someone else’s turn at the good deal. By the time you all read

this, the class reunion will be upon us, as will our major’s board... plenty of things to look forward to for the mightiest of classes. Get pumped, get psyched; life’s bursting with excitement... and with that being said, let’s delve into the updates from around the globe.

Chris FIAMM checked in from Dyess AFB and sends his greetings to all. Gary FOSTER wrote that he’s back in the Springs. He is working at Peterson as apro¬ gram manager in the Strategic Nuclear Deterrence Command and Control Sys¬ tems Program Of ce. His wife, Colleen, and daughter Cailin Renee, and Iare plan¬

ning on attending the reunion. See you there! Holly RAWSON wrote from up at Elmendorf AFB where she is the space of cer for 11th AF. Skip VANDERBACH confessed to being alittle late in getting my info to the web site, but the reunion

letter got his attention and convinced him to send it in. He’s currently stationed at Fairchild AFB, WA ying the KC-135R. Ed MOORE also checked in. He’s work¬ ing as anetwork consultant with Quality Communications. Matt HURLEY checked

in from Belgium. Jeff SAMUEL wrote that he is

ying F-15s in the Louisiana ANG out of New Or¬

leans. He’s just started with United Airlines in March. Having ablast in the Big Easy. Doug SABO wrote as well. It appears that Baby Sabo was born at 1722 PST on 21 Mar 2000. Her name is Amanda Diane Sabo. Both baby and mother are reported to be doing very well. CONGRATS! Greg GORDY checked in from Peru

where he was on athree-month counter-drug TDY at the Embassy in Lima. Sounds exciting Greg! Kimberly and Tim BENTLEY just had their second girl, McKenzie

building business (North Shore Construction, Inc.) 1went for it. Inow ovm and

Rene Bentley, born on March 27, 2000. The whole family is happy and healthy

manage (getting bored yet?) alog home and light commercial building business in Northern Michigan. We aren’t abig company, but we’re slow too. We’ll do around $1.2M in gross sales this year, and I’m enjoying the challenge here in God’s Country (we’ve come full circle... beauty eh?). As the ‘boy wonder’ (Yarbs) used to say, ‘Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars...’ (wonder where he got that from?). Over &Out...” Thanks for writing Kurt! My old room-dog from Ellsworth AFB, Mike TREFRY, dropped me aline to say he is out of the Air Force, lives in Tucson working for Raytheon, and recently mar¬ ried. While TDY to Barksdale before my move, 1ran into Mark SWENTKOFSKE, who was TDY from Kelly AFB giving a“look-see” to the 8AF Information Warfare

there in warm San Antonio. Dan DIRNBERGER wrote that Michael Adam

Dirnberger was born 5March 00. Doing well. Older sister, Dana, loves him to death.

Sometimes she has to go to time-out for loving him too rough! Anyway, he’s still at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, He will pin on major in 14 days, and off he’ll go this summer to Kadena AB, Okinawa, where he vrill be one of four neonatologists (doctor taking care of critically ill and premature babies) at the Naval hospital on Camp Lester. Iknow Steve and Liz ORIE will be there with their little one (Nicholas) this summer, too. He says that he won’t make the reunion from Japan, so you’ll have to post pictures on the web site. Congrats my friend! Steve ARBETMAN checked in from Barksdale AFB. Kevin GRIFFIN checked in. Lee

ARMSTRONG wrote that he’s just got back from amonth in Cameroon for a

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Country”reading Checkpoints and Ithought I'd give you and update on the ‘fellas’ Ihung out with at the Zoo. ‘Jamie THURBER (Tub O’ Goo II): Jamie and Dee-Dee just recently moved from Fairbanks, AK back to New England. Jamie separated from the AF afew years ago and is now aComputer Tech-head. Basically, he eats alot of potato chips, makes the keyboard greasy (which he also rubs in his hair) and spends his time writing

MEDFLAG. Nice spring break —hot, dry and sunny. Had afew other zoombags on the trip, but not from ‘90. Brad RICE got out in Jan, looking for an airline. Bryan and KK BATT had two baby girls recently in North Carolina. He’s staying in. John HALL wrote: Hello everyone! Just wanted to tell you of our new info since we are moved and settled in Minnesota. John is now ying for Northwest Airlines and is based out of Min-

Class of 1990 10th Reunion/Homecoming U S A FA v s . N e w M e x i c o

18-22 October 2000 neapolis. Tom KUBLIE checked in. Shane SMITH also checked in. Mike MOVE

sent greetings, as did Kevin HIGGINBOTHAM from Dover AFB. Chris KORPELA wrote that United hired him last week. He says he’s expecting to move back to Den¬ ver this summer. Can’t wait for the reunion. Mark SCHMOYER sent in an update. He separated from active duty in Oct ’99. (“I think I’m the only one in our class who

aromatic hydrocarbons in soils. ’Did my 45-minute presentation, was questioned for 30 minutes, then the door closed. My committee only suggested minor edits on the dissertation, and actually signed afew original title pages! Still doesn’t feel real that it’s basically over. My ‘graduation’ is in August, but since I’m not sticking around for that. I’m celebrating now! Yea for me! Now I’ve got to burn some of these 70 days of leave Ihave! Well, that’s after Iclean up my lab space and gure out where I’m going to live next (in San Antonio) ”. Truly Tasha...thou art the woman! Well gang, as you can see, there’s alot going on with the most marvelous class. Certainly we will all be able to catch up with each other real-time at the reunion. Much thanks to Gary HAINES and all he’s doing to get the reunion all “cranked” up. Your efforts are much appreciated! Until next time, most honorable class, you all take care, check six, and remember it’s peace and pals forever!

has gotten out so far, ’’says Schimo.) He is ying part time for the Reserves at McChord

C a r s o n Ta v e n n e r

AFB while living in Seattle. He got hired by Delta Airlines ashort while ago and started training May 1st. Moving to Atlanta soon. He says that he hopes everyone is well —see you in October! Quinn GUMMEL wrote that he was at Davis-Monthan until last year and recently moved to Beale AFB. He is out here with fellow ’90ers

30 Ellsworth St.

Rod HARRELL, Bob HAINES, Harold SANDERS, and Paul COOK.

Percent members: 38

Niv CAVIAR vwote: “Last year I nally left management consulting, frigid Bos¬ ton, and Andersen Consulting. Iam now working at abiotechnology company in Silicon Valley called Affymetrix. Our company is converging the eid of micro¬ electronics, genetics, and biochemistry. Our agship product, the Genechip, is basically amicroprocessor coated with the DNA molecule. The company recently moved from the prototype stage to actually selling real products that are aimed at the life science market—we are traded on the NASDAQ as AFFX. On apersonal

front, our son lames just turned one and has discovered that he can walk. Wife, Gina, is aprofessional violinist but has elected to take some time off to do the family thing. If any Zoomies are in Silicon Valley let me know.” Thanks for the super update Niv. Steve ALDRIAN checked in, he’s working for Northwest Air¬ lines.

Jim FINNEY gave apretty neat update: “I started at Delta Air Lines about amonth ago. Ihave seen Trent VAN HUELZEN and Brent MERRITT in addition to many other ‘89er and afew ‘90 guys. We (Patricia, wife of over eight years; Erica, daughter, 4; and Audrianna, daughter, 2) are still living in Charleston, but will be moving to Phoenix this summer and Iwill be (probably) transferring my Reserve to Luke, if I decide to stay in the Reserves”. Thanks for all the good info Jim. Bob GARCIA checked in from his new base. He states: “It’s of cial, IPCS from Aviano AB to Bolling AFB on lAug. I’ll be there in D.C. for the next year studying to get my master’s. My family and Iwill miss the vino and pasta in Italy but we are looking forward to being closer to friends and family”. Brian (CS-20) SMITH wrote aquick note that Karen and Mackenzie, and Ihave moved to Winchester, VA. He is ying with American and should be based out of D.C. by September. Keith “Jethro” MCCLELLAND wrote from Moody AFB, where he is with the 68th FS Lightning Lancers. Greg LANGAS checked in with this update: "Hi. It’s been along time since Isent you an update, so here goes: I nished my three-year assignment as an ALO with the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Ft Lewis, WA last summer. AFMPC tried to force me back to a ying job at AFSOC, so Iseparated. We spent this last year in Greens¬ boro, NC while 1 nished up some pre-med work at the college here. Ihave been accepted at the DOD med school at Bethesda, MD starting this fall, so in August we will be returning to the Air Force. Unfortunately, Iwill have to spend the next four years as a2Lt (but then once Igraduate, Iget the magic promotion from 2Lt directly to Capt). We bought atovmhouse outside of D.C., and are getting ready to move. Rachel (SLEEPER) has had her hands full raising our two kids (Joe, 5, and Megan, 2). We are planning to start homeschooling this fall, so she will be as busy as Ivrill. Idon't have apicture of the family to include, but maybe I’ll get one when I’m sporting my 2Lt duds and send it in the fall. Your picture looked great in the iast Checkpoints. Nice kids. Take care”. Thanks for the update Greg...best of ev¬ erything to you and Rachei and your family. Tom “Coma” BOWMAN also checked in. He has moved back home to Indiana

and is ying now for the Guard at Terre Haute. He just got hired by Delta and starts class in August. Chuck SIMPSON gave us all something to look forward to when he said that Kevin YANDURA(a fellow Tweet IP here at Laughlin) is putting together atwo-ship cross country to CSprings in hopes to do a yby at the game. Iknow that this doesn’t sound very impressive, but wait till you see how low we’ll be! (just kidding).., can’t wait Chuck (smiie)”. Dan WRIGHT gave this update: “All is well in Centreville VA. As my wife works at the NRO as weil, we moved closer to work. The

ve-minute drive is much better

than 45 minutes in D.C. traf c. Our little girl Danielle is now one year old... walk¬ ing and getting into everything. We’ll be at the reunion...looking forward to it". We’il see you there Dan! Richard CLARK wrote that his wife, Tina, their kids, and he are still here in the sunny panhandle of Florida assigned to Hurlburt, ying gunships. They’ve been there forever and don’t have any plans to leave.

Clayton PFLIEGER sent these words: “My wife will be having our third child

some time in early August. We will let ‘yall know when he gets here. We plan on being in the Springs for the reunion. Best wishes to all...” Thanks Clayton, and the same to you! Terry BROWN wrote that he is at Randoiph AFB now ying T-43s. He says “it is agreat job, but like all great jobs in the AF, it is going away. Ihave one

year and ve months left in the AF”. Finish strong my brother, and thanks for the

words. Tom VERNI checked in with this update: Iseparated from active duty on 30 May 2000 and joined the Air Force Reserves. My IMA assignment is at the De¬ fense Inteiiigence Agency and Iam currently employed at the MITRE Corpora¬ tion in northern Virginia, Van DESHAYES wrote from Ramstein, where he is aC21 pilot. He says that they have alot of ‘90 guys in his squadron, including Otto HABEDANK, Tom KOSS, Brad SNELLING, Dan GILLESPIE, and Brian SENNETT. Tasha “Dr. Dirt” PRAVACEK wrote: “Just wanted to do abit of bragging about me

—Ipassed my dissertation defense yesterday! ‘Impact of anaerobic conditions and microbial activity on the bioavailability of high molecular weight polycyclic

Colorado Springs, CO 80906 (719) 333-8637 E-mail: tavenner@hotmail.com

Greetings Class! This is going to be another short column. Iam writing from Walla Walla, WA, on my way (sort of) to the Academy during my combined PCS/ vacation road trip. One of the last-minute items that didn’t get done was this column. The deadline comes while we’re traveling, so here we are in cyberspace again. Anyway, it means that for the sake of time. I’m going to simply extract directly from e-mail I’ve collected and put it here in y’ails own words. From aseries of emails with Joseph Jnaiegwu ODEH, our Nigerian exchange brother, “I hope all is well with you and yours. Iam doing as ok as aman can in this country. Iam quite sure I’m missing out |on| alot of life being here... Iaim to start my MBA this year... ICheckpoints] is like my link to life... Idon’t have afamily yet. I’m not sure Ieven want to raise one in this country and under the present circum¬ stances. If Iever do, it will be due to the habit of foilowing the norms of society... I think what Ineed most is to get admitted into an American or U.K. university for an MBA. But Idon’t have all the relevant information to know if and how this is achiev¬

able. If you can get me info on that, then Ishould have abearing ... One of the quotes Ileast understood (and as aresult felt was useless) at the academy was ‘Cour¬ age is the price that life [exacts] for granting peace,’ Iknow it well now; Iknow it well." You can reach Odeh most easily by e-mail: oater.b® abuja.rcl.nig.com. From Derek FLETCHER in March, “I am now in my second year of medical school

at Wright State University School of Medicine, in Dayton OH. Iam also completely acivilian now; punched out about two years ago.” Soon after, Ireceived word from Peter GARRETSON that he and his wife, Darlene, have arrived in Okinawa,

and are all set up and ready to take visitors. He says, “so far we are having agreat

time. The job is great. We’re taking ballroom dancing lessons. Darlene is racing in the Dragon Boat Races, but the big news is Darlene is pregnant, and due 10 Nov.” Congratulations, you two! We have more news of this variety from Shannon and Angie CURRY, who are hap¬

pily expecting their second child; the due date is 25 Dec. Td say it’ll be aMerry Christmas! Shannon separated from the Army in Oct of’99. He is currently a rst

of cer on the regional jets with Continental Elxpress, based out of Cleveland, OH. He and Angie live in asuburb southwest of Cleveland (Berea) and just love it there. They also had an opportunity to see Ryan FARMER in Cleveland, who was there on

account of his son David’s latest heart surgery. Iam continually impressed and

inspired by the bravery of this young member of the ’91 family. Ryan writes after

this latest bout with surgery, “David continues to recover from his surgery and liter¬

ally thrive. His last appointment at Dayton Children’s Hospital went very well, show¬ ing little to no uid on his lungs and his blood balance continuing to be the right

balance for his blood-thinning medication. We’ll have our next appointment on

May 1st, and over the next few months David’s medications will be weaned down to I’ve updated David’s web page to re ect his most recent surgery, and I scanned in apicture taken just before we went to Cleveland. Here’s the address: http: //www.thehealthexpress.com/ ourgiftshop /david.htm. We want to again thank all of you for your prayers and your support. We hope those of you who will be able a m i n i m u m .

to see David in the future nd meeting him an encouragement to your faith.”

Our web site got another mail from across national boundaries, from Mazhar

ISLAM. Mazhar is at Faisal AFB, near Karachi, Pakistan, currently commanding

the Quality Assurance Squadron there. He updated his entry on the class web site and included these words: “I hope aH'91s are well and ne. We had another son

on Aprill4, 2000. Our other son, Ammar Ahmed, is now2 1/2 years old. It seems he is always thinking of ways to keep us busy. Anyway, it is lot of fun and we are very happy ... [My job] is fairly interesting as Iget to learn alot about different aspectsof Air Force Operations. InshaAllah (by the grace of Allah) I’ll be squadron leader (i.e. major) in June, 2000.1 am iooking forward to it as it opens you to alot more new experiences of commanding various units.” Mark True is at the David Grant Medical Center at Travis. He writes, “On May

20, 2000,1 graduated from medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. The graduation aiso en¬

abled me to pin my captain’s bars back on my shoulders —Ihad been asecond

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and we all ran into Rich FOGEL, Mike PICK, and John RIORDAN while out on the town (all are doing the C-17 thing). Great time was had by all. That’s all on this

for Bill to y C-17s. There were some other ’92 grads in his Intern Program: Jen BLOCK headed to Ramstein, Brent GRIFFIN anavigator at Randolph, John

end.”

KUBINEC going remote to Kunsan AB to be the Chief of QA while his wife Tonya (Kobedoll) ’93 nishes the following Intern Progam, Rich SANDERS going to com¬

ing/refueling our F-15s to Saudi last month. It was great to see him. He’s married with two great kids at Travis. While TDY vrith Joe, we ran into abunch of dudes in Pattaya Beach, Thailand, in support of Clinton’s trip to India. Chuck RANDALL

Theresa HUMPHREY (HATTEMER) has been at the depot at Hill AFB since Jul '99, when she returned from Kunsan. She says she’s enjoying Utah with her hus¬ band, Andy, and four-year-old daughter, Julia. Thomas RIEDEL updated his web

mand the readiness

entry since he’s in Fiorida, but no story from his end yet. 1\vo columns ago, Icommented on wanting to get in touch with Jim DUTTON. Well, 1ended up hearing from him through his wife, Erin, who wrote, “We’re sta¬ tioned at Edwards right now, with Jim going through Test Pilot School. After pilot training Jim was banked and was in Seattle getting his master’s when we met. We got married just before be went into training to y the Eagle (Nov ‘94). We were stationed at Lakenheath for 21/2 years, then Nellis for 11/2 years, and moved here in December. Jim will graduate from TPS in December of this year (Godwilling) and we are hoping to stay here at Edwards. We have one son (2 1/2) and another baby on tbe way, due in December. We’re iooking forward to the reunion next year.” Then we will have to make sure and get together at that point, won’t

some “air time.”

we?

where Joe was an IP in the C-5. They are settling in at Whiteman AFB and Joe wiil

Paul BAUMAN, who I’ll be joining at work in just two weeks, also sent word about how his life goes at the Academy, “Til be in and out all summer, but staying iocal. 1 y with the 98th (WOB) and will be dropping lots of AM 490 students on top of USAFA this summer... for faii semester I’m directing Hist 202... My family con¬ sists of wife, Bonnie, daughters Bailey (5) and Bridget (4), and foster daughter Brie

be ying the B-2! That sounds like apretty interesting assignment. It should be

Ann (8 mo).”

ight at Misawa AB, and Mark BOYD getting aC-17 at McChord

AFB. If you were left out, blame Bill not me, but write to me and I’ll try to give you Steve and Kay WOLF are not going to be able to make my wedding from Ger¬ many due to the timing. Steve is still in graduate school in Berlin and doesn’t have

abreak coinciding with my wedding. (Note to self: must talk to those Germans about their rigid schedules.) But, he and Kay did get abreak and took some time to explore different parts of Europe. They took athree-week vacation to hit the

major sites in Germany, Austria, and Norway. They toured the castles in Germany and Austria and visited the Fjords in Norway. They also learned to cross-country ski and found out it is quite aworkout. Inext got an e-mail from another old Tarantula classmate, Joe HALL and his

wife Tammy. They just moved from Dover AFB, nishing asecond tour there,

quite different from the C-5, but he’s ready for the challenge though he’s “not look¬

ing forward to going from being an IP in one aircraft to asmdent in another...” He saw Rob and Leisa TOBLER who got to Dover shortiy before Joe and Tammy left. I’m looking forward to seeing them this week at my wedding. The other 92 grad he knew was at Dover is Jim GALLAGHER who was in the other squadroi—

Finally, my most recent news comes from Jim SIMMONS. "Greetings! Ihave separated from active duty and have gone to work as amanufacturing engineer for the Trane Company making air conditioners in Fort Smith AR. It’s hard to stop

C-5’sIthink.

aTrane! 1am also weekend warrior with the 189th AW in Little Rock. 1work as a

the Zoo and after graduation, the whole Gurrierl gang headed to Hawaii for aweek.

civil engineer for the Arkansas Air National Guard.” Okay, folks, that’s it from e-mail! Despite living in Washington for almost two years, Inever really got together with any classmates at McChord. However, my family and Idid take the opportunity to join Chris BUSHMAN and his wife, Stacy (and two girls), for dinner with my family at their house. They were in “training” at Boeing associated with abusiness internship program with/for the Air Force’s contracting career eld. Pretty cool opportunity to interact with private sector business while maintaining the blue-suit connection. By now Chris has moved his famiiy to Wright-Pat. We look forward to seeing Chris and Stacy at the reunion. 1must make an interesting trivia point here: Chris’ two girls and my two kids are almost exactly the same ages: each "pair” of birthdays is within one week of each other. Needless to say, the four had agreat time playing together. 1apologize for now deliberately putting you guys on alower priority from my current responsibilities, but the family and vacation are calling! I’ll see you in Colorado! Your bud forever, Carson, James S. Mehta 46-098 Konohiki St. #3322 Kaneohe HI 96744

DSN: (315) 449-3845 (808) 247-5232 E-mail: jamesmehta@usafa.com Percent members; 34

John GURRIERI, who was in my SOS ight, sent me an e-mail to say he would be in Hawaii in June. His younger brother, Tony (Class of 2000) just graduated from Unfortunately, things were so busy for me that Iwas not able to meet John and Cammi for dinner, Idid talk to him and he promised to look me up the next time he

ies through Hickam.

After reading the last Checkpoints column. Josh KUTRIEB sent me an e-mail from Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. That’s because he read that I was headed there this Fall and wanted to welcome me to add to the 6% Air Force population on campus. Boy, “campus”...that sure sounds different, Ithink Iwill

enjoy going back to schooi. Anyway, Josh is in the rst year of a2Vz year AFIT assignment as aSpace Systems Engineer sponsored by the NRO (we can say that now). He has been sending me info on housing and the best places to live. Yester¬ day, Igot an e-mail from him with some excellent news! He and Kristin are ex¬ pecting their third child in December. Congratulations! Their two boys, Hayden and Jared must be excited, too. Michelle and 1look forward to spending time with them in Monterey.

I’ve got acouple of more items to pass along before Iget to the big story. Col Charles Rush (Ret) sent me an announcement that Trevor RUSH graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Diego Law School on 27 May 00. That’s quite impressive! Isn’t that acoincidence.. .May 27.. .1 bet the weather was better that day in San Diego than it was in Colorado in 1992. Anyway, Trevor cross-com¬ missioned in the Navy upon out graduation and attended the program under the Navy Legal Education Program with ascholarship. Trevor is aLieutenant and when he passes the Bar exam, he wili be stationed in San Diego. Once he gets started, we’ll have to ask him if his job is as exciting as the TV show JAG.. Ihad an intetesting experience recently. Dave DURBIN sent me an e-mail last year saying that he, too, was stationed at Hickam and that we should meet some¬

Aloha 1992! Iwon't be able to use that greeting too much longer as Iwill be leaving Hawaii in the Fall. As much as Ihate to do it, there’s always another as¬ signment to move on to. Iwon’t talk about myself too much this time, since 1vrill next time. Iam actually getting the column in early since Iwill be getting married this weekend and wiii be on my honeymoon when this is normaliy due. Ihave several e-mails to tell you about and agreat weekend in Las Vegas for Mike ROKAW’s wedding in April. Ihave also seen several people here in para¬ dise. .. My rst e-mail is from Scott COREY. Scott’s e-mail was ftmny because he told me about Jeff MERRITT and Brent FULTON, but forgot to tell me about him¬ self. Jeff was one of my trek partners in SERE during in the exciting summer of '89 and he recently PCSed to McChord from McGuire and stopped by Dallas to see Scott. Scott has away of putting things, so I’ll iet him narrate from here. "Apparentiy [Jeff] nally found the girl of his dreams (Liz) and is very ciose to popping the question. So close that all Iheard about for 2days is what type of ring he’s going to bring home. Those of us who know Jeff are truly amazed that any girl would take the offer seriously, but apparently she digs his ight suit and “hazard¬ ous duty” pay. Jeff was also pretty proud of himself when wtee’d it up here in Dallas and he nally broke 100.” Hey, what’s wrong with shooting 100, Ithink that’s quite good (that’s about what Ishoot!). Jeff, write us and keep us posted on this development. Brent Fulton breezed though Dallas and spent some time vnth Scott. Brent got out several years ago and has spent the last few years getting various degrees from UCLA including his MBA. Brent initiaiiy started working for Amnesty International and “when the food ran out, Brent left and found ajob with Earthlink. He’s also taking helicopter lessons...[Scott] thinks he’s trying to

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was there. He is happily married with anew baby girl. Ro[mero| LEWIS was there

nd away to avoid the traf c in LA.” Thanks for the letter, but next time give yourself alittle publicity. Igot an e-mail from Bill SPANGENTHAL who was one of my classmates in UPT at Vance APB. Ihad not heard from him since UPT assignment night and he rst wrote me along e-mail but did not put his name on it. 1was guessing it was him, but hit the reply button and wrote “who are you?” just to be sure. Bill married Alisa whom he met while at Vance...a good story if Iremember correctly...and they have been married for 6years. They have an 18 month old daughter, Emma Kate, and Bill loves being adad. They were stationed at Grand Forks for 5years ying KC-135S and are now nishing up the Intern Program in Washington DC. He has enjoyed his time in DC, but know he wants to avoid the Pentagon in the future! So now. Bill, Alisa, and Emma are packing up and heading to Charleston

erhood. We have a20-month-old son, Calvin, and another on the way.” Robb ERICKSON checked in from the 44th Fighter Squadron at Kadena, Hav¬ ing moved there recently, he now adds, “Bill PERIS is here in my squadron. He cross- owed to F- 15Cs here from the KC-135. Mike BROCKEY and Terry WALKER are also ying Eagles here. Ran into Joe BURSCHNIK on his KC-10 while escort¬

lieutenant (again!) for the four years Iwas in med school. Iwill be starting athreeyear residency in internal medicine at Travis AFB on 1Jul 2000. My wife, Lois (BAIRD), is now out of the Air Force devoting her time to the noble cause of moth¬

time. Well, we found out we were actually working in the same building on base— the PACAF HQ building. It seemed that either Dave or Iwere always TDY and we never hooked up. Neither of us remembered one another from the Zoo, and even¬ tually, my e-mails to Dave came back addressed from the “Mailer Daemon!” I gured Dave had PCSed. Then about amonth ago, Imet an OSI friend of mine for

dinner in Honolulu and she said she was inviting some other friends who were also stationed in Hawaii. Anyway, I’m sitting there after being introduced to "Davd’ and after an hour, Dave asked me where Iwent to school. After Isaid the Acad¬

emy, he asked what year. After Isaid ’92, he said, “I guess we were ciassmates, but didn’t know one another.” Of course, at that point the tight went on and Isaid, “What is your last name again?” We had agood laugh after that. Dave had changed jobs and is at USPACOM at Camp Smith in their Plans and Programs Of ce work¬ ing on aii the exercises we have here in the Paci c. Now, we come to the big story of the day. Iannounced in one of the last issues that Mike ROKAW got engaged. Well, he and Angela nally tied the knot in Las

Vegas on April 29. Needless to say, that weekend was alot of fun. In some ways, it was reminiscent of our time at Edwards AFB when we used to make weekend

trips to Vegas. The weekend started eariy—Thursday to be precise. Thursday night was the bachelor’s party and Jay SCHUELER and Ijust made it in time. We all spent most of the night smoking cigars and drinking beer (only one per person, of course...) and telling stories about Mike. Mike had acouple of high school friends there, so we heard some pretty old stories. The wedding and reception were on Saturday in the evening at the Sands Expo. There were Zoomies from as far back

as ’79, Col Phil FITZJARRELL, and even aFirstie about to graduate, Jeff BELISLE.

neer school. Thanks Rick!

Char MCREADIE (MELICK) checks in after along stay (my fault for the wrong email)! Her husband, Rob, and son Jordan are still at Kirtland. Rob is PCSing to

Mike and Angela’s Wedding Guests The True Blue class was represented by Lyle SHIDLA, Gary JENKINS, Blane RASCH, Andy and Donna (DELANGO) BATES, Jay SCHUELER, Pat DABROWSKI, JeffVISH, Art PRIMAS, and me. Other grads included, Jason KIMBEL (93) (who is married to Jessica, Angela’s sister), StuEBERHARDT (94), and Karina EMHOF (99). It was quite aweekend and great to see all the familiar faces. Mike and Jason even had a great run at the Craps table and Mike left with some extra cash for the honey¬ moon in the Caribbean. Mike and Angela were great hosts and we all had agreat time. Then again, it was Vegas! Until next time, Drue Blue and Semper Excelsior! Aloha, James.

Maxwell AFB for ACSC. She is attempting to apply for Palace Chase for transfer to the Reserves as amedical chief info of cer. Her updates are from Joann (HARTLEY) HUPP who currently resides at Hickam AFB. She is attending safety of cer school this summer. Howdy fellow safety of cer! Donna (VINES) PETTY is still at Spangdahlem doing well. Paul and Jenn COPIOLl are expecting anew one. Paul is loving life in the technology industry. Where are all the tips Paul? Christy (TAN¬ NER) and Rod TODD are still in South Carolina. Rod

nished school and Christy

enjoys being amother and running her own business. She has her own new

Cadillac now! Congrats on the achievements! Rod vrill be Dr. Rod Todd in the future so anyone with ailments please call him. One of the KOBYASHI brothers will be at Kirtland AFB replacing one of their departing physicians. Jackie (OTIS) BREEDEN was in Checkpoints (p. 23). She is pictured with her sister Jamie and brother-in-laws Marc and Brad. We haven’t heard from Jackie or Jason in awhile.

Char says -hint, hint.

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An update from Phil and Amy TUCKER. They are the proud parents of abeauti¬ ful girl, Caroline. They are getting used to each other and recently made atrip to

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My heartiest hello’s to everyone and Ihope all is well and safe this summer! Lori and Iare on the move again. At least Ididn’t change bases, just addresses. My email address still remains the same. Please make anote in your address books! I would like to announce again our new web site is up and on-line at www.high ight.com. It is awesome. Ihave posted last quarter’s AOG letter on the board. Rich has done an exceptional job! Keep up the great work. Let’s reach into the old mailbag! Or if you happen to watch Blues Clues like my nephew—we’ll talk to Mr. Mailbox. Hey, it’s the “scoop” guy, Chris CHAPLIN! As of Mar 00, his class in the Lobos of the SOB* at Davis Monthan AFB was graduat¬ ing. Rich BENDA is on the move to Eilson AFB, AK with his wife, Suzanne, and his one year-old son. Mike ROGERS is loving life in the Connecticut ANG at Bradley International. There are three gentlemen in the 354* FS (Bulldawgs), Mike YOUNG, Dave JOHNSON, and Rob BROGAN. John BRINER and Charlie WAHL recently left the Dawgs for Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB. That’s right (intense pause), Iam dangerous! Good luck with the patches boys! lyier MOORE and wife, Lori, are there at DM. He is doing intelligence-related stuff, but heading out to Naval

Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. That's atough tour of duty! Thanks for the news from Arizona!

Jenn JOYCE checks in after along sabbatical from speech in this ne AOG peri¬ odical. She is down the road from us in the District of Columbia doing the gradu¬ ate school deal. She’ll graduate from Howard University vrith aMA in African Studies. Her follow-on assignment is to our alma mater! Iknew you would make it back there at some point as an instructor! She updates us on All WARD who is in Uirkey working the contracts, but will be moving to Hanscom AFB soon. Anne TRUITT is now avery happy civilian going to medical school at George Washing¬ ton. She nished up her second year this spring and vrill take her hoards this summer. We give the best vrishes Anne! Wade DOUTHIT is now in government

service. In October, he graduated from the FBI Academy. In November his vrife, Rhonda, gave birth to their new son Brady. He moved to North Jersey. Wade—

Phil’s sister’s wedding in North Carolina! Terri (HOEFT) SHEPPARD just arrived at Langley AFB. She just nished the

intern program (i.e. fast burner) and is starting at HQ ACC/ FM. Other intern gradu¬ ates include GEORGE IRVIN who is on his way to Elmendorf AB to y F-15Es. Paul

HIBBARD is at SOS and vrill return to the F-15E community at Seymour Johnson. Mike and Mara (SKIRMANTS) MCNEIL are expecting their rst child during May

00. Mike separated from the AF last fall and Mara departs this month. Heidi (CARTER) HEINLEIN is living in Fredericksburg, VA doing the mom thing and enjoying Reserve life. Other Pentagon folks include Tonya (KOBBERDAHL)

KUBINEC, Kristin GOODWIN, Gina HILGER, Aaron FREED, Chuck WALLACE, Kieran DENEHAN, Zach BARBER, JohnLUSSIER, Brian WOLFORDD, Craig RIZZO, Joe DELCAMPO, and Tina RETTA. Tina is going to be at HQ ACC/FM as well. Thanks for the update.

Larry SPINETTA reports from Leakenheath AB. He and his wife, Nancy, just had their rst child, Lauryn Elizabeth. She was born in Cambridge England. Lauryn is American, Canadian, and British! Wow! He and his family will be departing the

U.K. for Tyndall AFB. He will be aschool house instructor. Kirk RIECKHOFF is on the same path. Both are happy to get back into the cockpit. Rob DAMM left his Gucci Boy cush assignment in C-21s at Andrews. He is now at Pope AFB ying the dirty C-130. Russ TEEHAN (That’s Dr. to everyone) is now teaching at the Physics Department. He enjoys passing erudite theories and equations to his younglings. He married his sweetheart earlier this year. Steve BEASLEY is doing the B-1 thing in North Dakota. Scott STEERE is at Mildenhall -at least Larry ran into him there.

He’s at Dover AFB where the squadron is 120 percent over-manned! Thanks for all the updates! Guess that about closes us out for another great article. My thanks go out to all

the participants! Keep 'em coming! Lori and Iare both very excited. Our new addition is due in August! Yippee! Take care and have asafe end-of-summer and great early fall! Mike

call, we’ll do lunch in the Big Apple! I’m only alocal and an “A" train away! Wade

currently works for the Manhattan Bureau of the FBI. Jenn, thanks for the update!

Kevin “Hobo” SUTTON checks in from Spangdahlem AB, Germany. Ibet we’d all like to know how you got your wonderful call sign Hobo! At any rate, Kevin PCSed from Shaw AFB in October and is now ying F-16s vrith the 79* FS. When he left his former squadron, Rick ROSALES and Steve HORTON were in atten¬ dance. Rick also woundup at Nellis AFB for Weapons School. How many patch wearers are we going to have in ’93! Todd SEGER worked his way through the afore¬ mentioned school as well. Congrats to all the guys! Mike MCLUNG is also at Spang doing the Intel thing sporting his shiny Weapons School patch. “We’d ex¬ pect nothing less!” During Operation Allied Force Amy SHIRLEY and some of the above did an exceptional job!

Kevin and his vrife are now the proud parents of tvrins. They gave birth to two beautiful girls on 11 April 00. Other updates from Kevin are that DougTORLUEMKE, his wife, Jennifer, and his son Brian just arrived from Luke AFB. Ryan “Flash” Barker is also there loving life as an honorary member of'93. Get'em Flash! Beau “Riddler” ROGERS is due to leave Misawa AB. Nathan HOBBS is cross

owing from F-16s to C-17s. He and his vrife, Kelly, have anew baby girl. Tony MEYER has shown his face around Spangdahlem, but Kevin can’t seem to catcb up with him due to the excessive Bier Garten tours in Bitburg. Alex GRYNKEWICH is still ying F-16s at Hill AFB. He recently became an instructor. Can you believe Isaid all that in one breath? Guess not. Thanks for the updates Hoho! Our next update comes from good ol’ Rick LUCE. Not to be egotistical, he’ll start vrith himself. He spent the remaining weeks at Patrick AFB before going to

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Hi again, everyone! With the delay in overseas mail, it seems these columns are due sooner and sooner —Ijust got my latest issue of Checkpoints last week and, here we go again! Luckily, I’ve heard from and seen some new folks lately, so I’ve got more news from around the world... Life in Korea has been busy, as we’ve just commemorated the 50* anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Lots of distinguished visitors coming in and out, so

I’m kept hopping in my Protocol job (and out of trouble, which is good!). Kay AQUINO arrived at the beginning of the year after aone-year embassy job in Egypt. She’s been doing great things in our RED HORSE squadron and is looking forward

to afollow-on to RAF Lakenheath next February. Despite her busy schedule, she

was able to make it to Tempe, AZ to attend the 28 May wedding of Tam (VO) and Capt Jon ELUOT. Tam (L.A. AFB) will be moving to Scott AFB in September to join Jon. Also at the wedding was Amy DiGIOVANNI—she’s out of the Navy now and living and working in Jacksonville, FL. Jessica NICKODEM RHYNE joined the Osan crowd afew months ago to y F-

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Monterey enjoying the beach. He’s the second grad in this letter going to Naval Postgraduate School getting his MS in space systems engineering. He’ll be ana¬ tional recon ol cer building nicely de ned, yet highly secret satellites. Rob MYHRE rvas also selected for the same program. Allan MAXWELL and Scott BELL are both out there doing the same thing that Rick is scheduled to do. Allan, however, just put his papers in to separate. Scott is forging ahead in his rough climb to the top of the AF ladder. Scott enjoys brie ng the director of the NRO on adaily basis about these interesting satellites. Rick throws out aname from 1993 past -Jon Raker. He actually nished his ROIC scholarship and is now working at Brooks AFB, TX. The last update from Rick is for Ken GERMANN who left the Joint STARS test squadron in Patrick for Edwards AFB where he is attending ight test engi¬

16s with the 36“’ Fighter Squadron “Fiends.” Her husband, William, is stationed closer to the DMZ at Camp Red Cloud. He’s usually able to make it down on week¬

me some incredible travel opportunities, so I’m sort of pulling for that one. I'll let you know how it turns out! Ihope you’re all doing well and enjoying your sum¬

ends, so that makes the tour alittle easier for both of them!

m e r. Ta k e c a r e a n d G o d B l e s s ! C . C .

Also doing the split-base gig are Lauren SHEAHAN (Kunsan) and her husband. She’s the new Combat Support Flight commander for Wolfpack’s Services squad¬ ron and her husband works down the hall from me. Ihaven’t seen her since our

initial Services training in 1994, so it’s great to have the opportunity to catch up with her. She reports that Jill RYLAARSDAM and her husband are expecting a baby in September —don’t forget to send apicture! There’s afull crowd of ‘94 folks at Kunsan with Lauren, including James THOMP¬

SON, who got weather-diverted here in his F-16 the other day. He’s only been here afew weeks, but already misses his wifeVikki—she’s holding down the homefront at Hill and taking care of their “kid” —an Alaskan Husky. Back at Hill, he ew with Jason DICKENSON, Dave CHACE, Chris SMITH (now at Kunsan), Craig ALLEN, and AlexGRYNKOWICH (‘93). Also there was Kristen WELCH (Intel), who is separating for ajob in the civilian world. Of course, he’s surrounded by USAFA folks at Kunsan

too—including Jeff GODDARD, Sean ROUTIER, Joe KENDALL, John STOCKWELL, Mike WAITE, Mike MALONE, and Brad GLENN ('95). James and Vikld keep in touch

with Steve MacILVAINE (Travis, KC-10), who’s getting married soon, and with Chris WOMACK (Sacramento,

ies C-5s for the ANG).

Iget to talk to some other grads because of my job —including Matt POWELL (‘93), the aide de camp for Lt Gen Hester (5 AF/CC) at Yokota, and J.C. MOCK, the

exec for the AIA commander (Maj Gen Wright) at Kelly. J.C. is an Intel guy who spent his rst assignment at Hickam and will spend the next at Ramstein (rough life!). He keeps in touch with Steve BUTTIE (Little Rock AFB, C-130 nav); Tim DOWD (Ft Meade, Intel); Ken STOLTMAN (McGuire, KC-10); Travis VIRES (SlU ROTC instructor); Tim KOPANIA (Mildenhall, Intel); and Carlton HOSKINS (work¬

ing in the U.S. Senate). Others include Ki JACKSON (Lakenheath, F-15E); Rich AMISANO (Hurlburt, AC-130); Doctor Brad GOEKE (Little Rock); Todd STRATON (Davis Monthan, Comm); and Dave MYHRE (‘93, Hurlburt, Intel). J.C. and his

boss plan to roll through here the rst week of August, so we’ll get achance to catch up more then! Thankfully, work isn’t the only way Istay in touch with people. Ido get an occa¬ sional e-mail as well. Mike and Tara (DUBILO) TRAW wrote the other day from Austin, where they’re enjoying life in the civilian sector. Mike works with Bradley Morris (and is trying to recruit AFA grads for those of you in the job market!); Tara is busy taking care of their daughters Kate (16 months) and Beth (four months). Kathy CLEVELAND (Kirtland) just e-mailed the other day from aTDY in Colorado Springs. She just met Carrie (BISCHEL) and Joel JENSON’s newborn son Jonathan,

as well as Jeff and Nicole KUZMA’s daughter Joy. She went to Wright-Pat earlier this year to complete her baby tour. There she got to meet Kennedy Onaha and her big brother Obasi—the precious children of Natalie (WHITMAN, ‘93) and John (Obasi) ONAHA. On another trip to Columbus (can you tell she’s TDY alot!), she got to see

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Hi everyone! Ican’t believe it’s June already as Isit here writing this! Time is really ying. This article will be along one... it has been abusy three months since Ilast wrote. Iseparated from active duty and moved back to Wichita, KS, in early May (not before breaking my toe playing soccer though). 1leave for Paris with my mom here shortly and will be there for aweek before Ihead back to Wichita to start job hunting. Life has been treating me just ne! One minor correction before Istart, is that Mike FOUTCH is trying for the nursing management program not anursing school position... he is leaving Lajes shortly for Washington DC. Sorry about the mix-up on my part. On with the news... Todd COOK (‘96) and Wendell HERTZELL and Iwere able to attend awedding in Wichita

in late April for amutual friend. Todd ew in from Charleston and Wendell is sta¬ tioned at McConnell as aKC-135 pilot. Jason GOOCH and Ihave been playing phone

tag as he drives from Dallas to Kansas to visit family. He is going to remain in Dallas for another couple of years at the civilian company where he was doing his EWI program and is really loving his life in that area. Elizabeth TEMPLETON stopped in Wichita to stay with me on her way to Florida for her summer stint teaching ROTC cadets. We had agreat time catching up and she and Iran alOK race before she hit the road her last day. Ever the athlete! She’ll be beading back to Montana at the end of the summer to continue teaching ROTC at the University of Montana. Also in the ROTC teaching business, Stacie KREYKES is heading to the University of Arizona

from Lakenheath (actually Ithink she may be there by the time you are reading this) and she will be an ROTC instructor as well.

So many people wrote this month via e-mail and the ever-vanishing letter! Here are some of the tidbits Ireceived. Debbie (OLSON) MCFARLAND wrote from

Wright-Patterson in Ohio with celebratory news of her wedding to Shawn McFarland who she met at Shaw AFB while taking master’s classes. They were married in Sept 1999 and here is the wonderful picture of their wedding.

Dr. Rachel (CALL) HIGHT and her husband, Wes, who have decided to stick to rais¬

ing two large dogs for now. Kathy was thrilled to nd out that her next job as a program manager will keep her at Kirtland, so she’ll have another two years to enjoy her new house and car, as well as all the outdoor activities.

Despite the popularity of e-mail, Idid get onesnail mail letter from Kurt, Kristina, and Richard WENDT, who are having agreat time at NAS Ke avik, Iceland. De¬ spite Kurt’s background in Intel (just nished three years at the Pentagon), he is “career broadening” as the ops of cer at their command post. Although he’s ex¬ cited about returning to Intel for his next assignment, Kevin is enjoying Iceland— especially because Dave HAMBY lives just upstairs from him with his wife, Theresa, son Ryan, and newborn baby girl, Marissa. Kurt and Kristina were kind enough to share apicture from Richard’s second birthday party, which they celebrated in DC. with Ray'T’TRUONG (Osan, Intel); Wayne FLOYD (D.C., engineer); and Kevin and Ethan STONE. After three years at Ramstein, Kevin and his wife, Jennifer, moved to D.C.—he now works Intel in Kurt’s former organization. Although he’s

alittle isolated now, Kurt did sneak away to Goodfellow not long ago, where he got to catch up with John AALBORG, who’s there in Intel school.

That’s all I’ve heard from others, but I’ve been fortunate enough to continue my own travels and see afew familiar faces. After the Hennessy Awards in Chicago in May, Iwent to my little sister’s high school graduation in Louisiana (and got my ll of craw sh and po-boys!) and took her on agraduation trip to Hawaii. While we were there, we got to see Father (Colonel) Dick Higgins —formerly our senior chaplain at USAFA, currently the PACAF Command Chaplain, and soon to be the senior chaplain at the Academy’s Community Center Chapel. We also got to catch up with former commandant, Gen Patrick K. Gamble (PACAF/CC) and his wife, Ailese. Gen Gamble was presiding over the promotion ceremony of our former wing commander, Maj Gen DIERKER ('72, Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations Division, SHAPE), who was replaced here at Osan by Brig Gen Dave CLARY (‘76). Never one to stay put for long. I’m headed off to another vacation in afew min¬ utes. I’m going to spend aweek in Bali sunning and SCUBA diving with my friends Shelley (STRONG, ‘93) and Elizabeth. Tm still hoping to get to Singapore and Aus¬ tralia before Ileave Asia, but Idon’t think I’ll have the opportunity. It looks like I’ll be heading to D.C. in September or October and will be pretty busy with DV visits until then. I'm still not sure what I’ll be doing, but it’s now narrowed down to either International Protocol at the Pentagon (CVAI) or the Exec for ILV (Services) on the Air Staff. Ithink I’d be happy with either one, but the CVAI job would give

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From left are James “Buster” Myers, Erika (Jones) Devos, Pete “Froggy" Sheridan, Adam Kruger, Rob “Stump” O'Neil, the beautiful bride, Shawn, Raquel (Early) Wasilauski, Dan WasilauskI, Brig Gen Joe Kelly (74). Dana Dallas, and Brock Devos. Debbie is working on the C-130 avionics upgrade in the mobility system pro¬ gram of ce at Wright-Pat and Shawn is anurse working as an exec at the current time. Debbie will be going to Wright State University in August and becoming an ROTC instructor and her husband will be pursuing medical school in the next

couple of years. Debbie writes that James MYERS just nished his physics master’s degree and he and his wife, Tanya, just had ababy boy —lots of exciting things happening there! Adam KRUGER and his wife of ayear. Heather, are moving to Texas where Adam will focus on becoming alawyer. Colby HOEFAR recently n¬

ished his master’s degree in golf... er, well, something else Iguess... and will be moving to Lajes AB. Obasi ONUOHA (‘94) and Wayne YOUNG (‘94) have both been spotted at WPAFB as well. Chris FERRETTI and Eric HERBEK are stationed

at WPAFB and are working in the mobility SPO but in adifferent program than Debbie and Louis TORRES, who are working in the JSF SPO. Tom WALKER is there teaching at AFIT. Other class people you might recognize: Dave (‘94) and Amy CLAIRE have completed their transition to civilian life and have moved to Cincin¬

nati where Dave is working for Proctor and Gamble. Chris ATHEARN (‘89) was just promoted to major and is the exec for the ASC. Ron JOBO {‘90) works in the B-1 SPO. Debbie was able to meet up with Raquel (EARLY) and Dan WASILAUSKI

while TDY to Hurlburt. Raquel is working for AFOTEC and Dan evidently works in asecret program and likes to make up stories of what he really does. Jeff MARSHALL (‘94) and Jake MALOYare also at Hurlburt doing commando programs. Last fall at SOS Debbie mentioned she saw Billeye (GLADEN) JUAREZ, Mary HARTMAN (‘94), Scot SPANN C94), Kevin MAGALETTA, Dave HAMIEL, Tony ROE (‘92), Dave SEITZ (‘92), OJ SANCHEZ (‘93), RayALVEZ (‘92), Gabby PARKER (‘94), BrianBURNS (DG

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and class of ‘93), Fred DAMUTH, Tracy WILCOX, Rocky FAVORITO (‘94) and Jen PATRICK (94)... sounds like it was quite areunion! Eric MCKINNEY is in the pro¬ cess of nding anew job and moving to Virginia and is doing very well. Jeremy JOHNSON is in Texas (somewhere!) recuperating from back surgery with his wife,

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aphysical therapist —he's in good hands! Thanks for all of the updates Debbie! Jamie (DAHLGREN) GLOVER wrote from Florida to update me on herself and

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Dana DALLAS wrote from Wright-Pat to let me know that she had graduated from bartending school (congrats!) and is looking at several different master’s programs. Best of luck to you and keep us posted on your path! Don RHYMER wrote from USAFA where he is teaching Mech 120 (yikes!). After

nishing up

grad school at Georgia Tech, he came to USAFA and loves teaching and teach¬ ing four-smokes in particular! The rumors are true... Don is getting married this summer to Dawn GROVER (‘97) at the chapel and is very excited about

the whole prospect. She will be teaching Physics at USAFA after they are mar¬ ried. Don writes that Alex SANSONE, Pat POHLE, Dave MCDANIEL and Brian JOSEPH are also teaching at USAFA. Beau BILEK is on his way to San Diego

after graduating from Border Patrol school in Georgia and will write with up¬ dates of the sunny city once he arrives. Robert SCHREINER (‘98), one of my former smacks, found me from acivilian friend who moved to the Springs—

small world. He wrote updates of several guys from ‘98 and also said he saw Sam JOHNSON who is amissilier in Wyoming. Rolf LUNDMARK nished up training in California and heads to his new home this summer in Cheyenne as amissilier as well.

Don KANG sent this photo and an update on the Viper community.

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Matt and Jamie Glover on the beach. married to aDuke graduate and is getting ready to join the FBI starting in May (I

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guess she has already started!). Regina was able to meet up with Kristi LOWENTHAL (‘96) and Brian JOSEPH for New Year’s in Colorado to ski. Since

moving to LA., Regina writes she has been sur ng, mountain biking, skiing, trav¬ eling to Venezuela and Hawaii and just having agreat time! She writes that Janelle (JONES) CASS is married and has ababy boy. Jen (MAYERS) BAUTISTA is at

McConnell AFB and just had her second child. Andi SALAZAR (‘96) has ababy boy and is stationed at Travis AFB. Thanks for the update Reg! Keith CRAWFORD wrote to tell us that he and his wife, Holly, just learned they

will be having another child in November, so best of luck to them! Keith is looking at moving to Palmdale doing some ight testing for awhile. He also writes that Dave BRACKNEY, Erik HALVORSON and Boe JENSEN are still in the 43d ECS at

Davis-Monthan and that Boe just got aT-1 assignment to Laughlin AFB. Jim STUMBO wrote aquick update that he will be in San Antonio for two months with ghter basics and will then head to Seymour-Johnson for FTU in August to learn how to y the F-15E and from there is hoping to head to Idaho or England in March of 2001 or so. Anewly married John BREMER is also with him in San Antonio. Blake MATHIES surprised me with an e-mail and aphone call and relayed that he Is now amaintenance of cer at Ft Bragg/Pope AFB and loves it so far. He’s going TDY alot since getting this job but still loves it. He mentioned he saw Jon SCHEER and Stu MARTIN at Pope with the A- 10s. Kit HOWELL and his wife, April, wrote to share the great news of the pending arrival of their rst child sometime in early September. Kit also ran amarathon to support Team Leukemia and n¬ ished the whole run —congrats on both great events! Marty TOPPING dropped me an e-mail with news about he and Trav LIPPERT. Both guys are getting out this

From left are Brad Mitcheltree, Mike Barten, Jim Collins, and Don. As for the update, Jim COLLINS, Brad SEGER, Chris HUMMEL, Steve BOATRIGHT and Don are their way to become Fiends at Osan AB, Korea. Mike BARTEN and Brad GLENN are going to Kunsan AB. Also, Mike DUNAGAN is on his nal year of med school at Loyola in Chicago. Thanks for the photo and the update Don!

Jon VEAZEY checked in between his whirlvrind travels to brag about going to Jamaica (and several other great locations... Minnesota, Charleston, Venezuela... the fun never stops!). Iknow he will have agreat time. Well, I’m hoping Igot everyone! It is so great to hear from all of you and about your adventures and joys. Keep the e-mails coming and send any correspondence to the address above. I should have agood phone number by the next article! Take care out there—be safe and enjoy life as it comes to you! From the heartland, Becky. Melissa S. Cunningham 400 W. Nicholson St., Del Rio, TX 78840

summer to work on their business. Volition Interactive, acompany that develops

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web-based training and interactive software. They will be moving from their cur¬

E-mail: Melissa.cunning@laughlin.af.mil or Fmcunningham@aol.com

rent location in San Antonio to Denver around the end of 2000. If you are inter¬

ested in their business, drop me aline and I’ll forward you their website. Best of luck to you guys on your e-commerce endeavors! Andrea ROLFE wrote aquick e-mail with apicture that my computer decided not to save but instead decided to eat! People in the picture (taken while on the way to Bogus Basin to do some snowboarding) were Matt ECKLES (‘99), Jason WILSON (‘96), Rinney FUJIWARA, Jon APPELT (‘97), Ryan GRANT (‘99), Andrea and her

ance, Rob Misener. She wrote that Will MAHER is at Mountain Home

ying F-lSEs, Jeff JOHNSON just got aB-2 to Whiteman, and Brett BLAKE headed to Holloman for F-117 training and that he and his wife have anew baby girl, Madeline. Andrea is heading to Columbus to be aT-38 IP and Damon ANTHONY is heading to Lakenheath to y F-lSs. Kim (DEVEREAUX) BURKE is at Boise State

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Happy Pay Raise Everybody! And in two months, our car loans will be paid off too! Oh Happy Day! Things are going well in Del Rio. We’re propping for an ORl, so everyone is running around saying the “sky is falling.’’ It kinda cracks me up that an AETC base could get so cranked up about an ORI, but I’m only acaptain and they don’t pay me to worry about that stuff yet. The rst picture comes from Colleen (MCBRATNEY) CHRISTENSEN of the USAFA grads in the USUHS Class of 2000.

with her husband, Baron, getting ber master's degree with the AFIT program. A1 ADAMS wrote from Warner Robins to ll me in on things happening there.

He was nominated for the pilot of the year last year and as Company Grade Of¬ cer of the Year. Great job Al! He is also staying busy going TDY with his KC-135 and in the community working on two projects, the Warner Robins City of Char¬ acter and Inspiring Excellence Inc. It sounds like he has really immersed himself in these projects and is committed to making the area around him abetter place —keep up the fantastic work, Al! Bill BARRINGTON wrote with his list of SOS attendees to catch me up so here

goes! GeorgeHOLLAND (‘94), John DIPASQUALE (‘94), Sandy HAAS (‘93), Barrett MCCANN C95), Peg MUSKALUK (‘94), James BECKER (‘97) —ran into him in a bar in Ft Walton Beach through amutual friend, Gonzo RENYA (‘96) —ran into him at Billeting at Offutt AFB on his way to SOS, Cheryl LAMOUREAX, Todd BAKER (‘93), Scott STEERE (‘93), George CULVER, Cort HACKER, Jason BEERS, Jeff HAINES, Tammy (SMITH) RITTER, Trevor BENITONE, Stephanie JARL (‘94), Dan GITHENS (‘96),Tom THOMSEN (‘93), Steve ANDERSON (‘93) and Ron LEVY.

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USUHS Class of2000graduates fro are Mark True (‘91), MattBonzani C90), Colleen Christensen (‘96), Christine Tholen (‘96), Brandon Horne C95,) and B.J. Beard C96).

Mark TRUE ’will be going to family practice at Travis AFB. Matt BONZANI is

going into anesthesia at Wilford Hall. Colleen CHRISTENSEN will intern at ortho¬ pedic surgery at Wilford Hall as well. Christine THOLEN is going to family prac¬

tice at Offutt AFB. Brandon HORNE is going into general surgery at Wilford Hall, and nally, B.J. BEARD is going into pediatrics at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

On April 18, 2000, Dax HOLDER, Colleen (MCBRATNEY) CHRISTENSEN, and Jeff SKINNER pinned on their new ight surgeon wings. It was aproud day for all

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her husband, Matt ('94). She wrote that Matt’s squadron of MH-60s deployed to Yugoslavia and returned in time for Jamie's med school graduation in May of '99. Jamie is at the Eglin AFB hospital doing her family practice residency and Matt headed to Albuquerque to learn to y the MH-53 in late 1999. Upon his return they headed to Jamaica for their belated honeymoon and had agreat time, as is evidenced by this great picture of them on the beach. They are living between Eglin and Hurlburt with their dog, Nikka, and enjoying life in the sun. Regina REINHART wrote in from L.A. AFB where she is doing GPS test manage¬ ment. She was in Eglin for her rst assignment as atest engineer and lived with Megan MONAHAN for the rst two years. Really enjoyed the life there! Megan is

Three new ight surgeons from '96: Dax Holder, Colleen (McBramey) Christensen, and Jeff Skinner. and the culmination of four hard years of study (beyond USAFA). Its crazy to think that they’ve been second lieutenants for the past four years, but that has come to an end too. Dax will be working in emergency medicine in Buffalo, NY. Jeff is beaded to Andrews AFB to complete atransitional internship and then it’s on to

ight medicine.

News from San Luis Obispo! Jon “Wheels” WHEELER married Melissa Ann Rob¬ erts on April 15,2000 in San Luis Obispo, CA. It was agrand affair that also served as areunion for the ’96 Grim Reapers of Squadron 31. In addition to Wheels,

attendees were Shea BRANNON ( nished up med school in Arkansas and is look¬

ing for orthopedic surgery residency —mi^t be headed for Korea when he gets backinto the AF), John FRAZEY, Dewayne CREAMER, Matt GIESE (F-16s at Moody A F B ) , N o e l L I PA N A ( m i s s i l e s a t M a l m s t r o m A F B ) , J o h n L O D M E L L , To m McELHINNEY (F-16s at Shaw AFB), Tom McINTYRE, Eric SANDS, Chris SPINELLI,

Tom STE MARIE, Drew WILES, Rusty YERKES, and Ms. Linda Hook, Alan HOOK’s mother. Tim KAO, Doug WICKERT (’95), Jason RUESCHHOFF (’97), Mike TARABORELLO (’97), and Susie ROUKE (’98) completed the Academy contingency. It was two days of party, party, party —abig all-inclusive rehearsal dinner and even bigger wedding and reception. Col. (USAF retired) and Mrs. Wheeler, Wheel’s parents, supplied abathtub full of booze and beer. With the setting right on top of the cliffs of the Paci c, you can imagine the fun! The traditional Squadron 31 dance (and I’m still not sure what this dance is rated) was performed by the groom. Drew WILES, and John LODMELL, in honor of the bride! Wheels and Melissa

honeyinooned in Maui and are now back at Osan, where he is ying the F-16. They will follow-on to Hill AFB in mid-October. Best wishes to you both!

Bobbie Breyen and Jason Goodwin tie the knot! Front Row: J. Bredemus, Kerre (Ellis) Scarborough, Jason and Bobbie Goodwin, B. Mackey, and Gonzalo Reyna. Back Row: Bryan Cahill, C. Janusiewicz, Dee Catlln, and Mike Manion. delay to spend ve weeks in Hirkey to support Operation NORTHERN WATCH. Then she returned just in time to spend the New Year Y2K-style in Savannah, GA. Everyone says marriage includes some sacri ce; so, shortly after their January rendezvous, Jason left Robins AFB to join Bobbie as aKC-135 pilot in Grand Forks, He was lucky —it was avery mild winter! Bobbie spent most of the spring in Istres, France in support of Operation JOINT FORGE. Jason just left for three weeks in Saudi Arabia in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. But, before he re¬ turns, Bobbie will leave to spend the entire summer in balmy Altus AFB for up¬ grade to aircraft commander. She will be there with Dee GATLIN, Gonzalo REYNA, Chad McGARRY (KC-135, Grand Forks AFB) and Jason COOKE (KC-135, Grand

Forks AFB). This summer Grand Forks AFB is ripping up its runway. Jason vrill be whisked off to Kadena AB and McDill AFB where they will be living while the run¬ way is completed. She nished her note with “that’s the news from my home¬ town of Lake Wobegon.” News from the Zoo! (And isn’t it funny that you only call it that after you gradu¬ ate, Inever heard that while we were there.) Kristi LOWENTFIAL is teaching His¬ tory 101 at the Academy. She nished her master’s degree at the University of Nebraska last summer. She says that she can “truly understand why instructors are the way they are, because she is ‘one of them’ now.” Other grads that have returned to USAFA are Rusty YERKES (German instructor), Carrie (Barker) WOOD (basketball coach and she just had abeautiful baby boy, Gabriel), and Erik MACK who is on the World Class Athlete Program, in hopes of making the Olympic team in 2000. He is training in Boulder for the 3and 5K. Other folks she’s been in contact with are Libbie BEEGAN (Maintenance at Lan¬

gley AFB), John BOEHM (F-15s at Langley AFB), Chris CLARK (RC-135S at Offutt AFB with Lori (EDINGER) RASSMUSEN), Keith DERBENWICK (F-16s at Hill AFB),

Dave HENSHAW (B-ls at Dyess AFB), Jenny (MAYERS) BAUTISTA (Personnel at McDonnell —she’s just had her second baby, Jamie), T.C. JUDD (Maintenance at Kirtland AFB), Dolly PATEL ( nishing med school at Northwestern), Sara WHITTINGHAM and Ed ANDERSON (completing med school atTulane). Kristi attended Sammy Guenthner’s wedding recently. Sammy was the class of ’96 and used to be in CS-31 but quit after 3-degree year. Now Sammy’s nishing up med school at Kansas University. Abunch of‘96ers showed up for his wedding including: Tom McELHINNEY, Lori (EDINGER) RASMUSSEN, Noel LIPANA, Shea

The newlyweds, Jon and Melissa Wheeler, make their escape to Maui. Wedding Bells are still ringing for the class of '96. Bobbie BREYEN and Jason GOODWIN were married Oct 16,1999 in Colorado Springs. It’s the date that the sergeant working chapel events assured her was not homecoming weekend — but of course, it was. You might recall the strange occurrence of achance blizzard during the football game last fall. Well, that was the day they were married. They took the troupe up to Cripple Creek on Friday before the wedding to donate their funds to “cripple kids” (that was always my excuse too). During the bus tide down the mountains, they watched the dark-purple clouds form on the horizon. De¬ spite the weather, the wedding was asuccess! There were several other grads who completed the pilgrimage in order to participate in the festivities. Bobbie said that Kerre (ELLIS) SCARBOROUGH was avery “energetic bridesmaid” which I read into that as she was partying it up in normal Ellis fashion. Robin ORTH (ac¬ quisitions, Hanscom AFB) and Mike MANION (C-9 pilot, Scott AFB) were both ushers. Dee GATLIN (KC-135 pilot, Fairchild AFB) and Bryan CAHILL (KC-135, Mountain Home AFB) and Gonzalo REYNA (KC-135 pilot. Grand Forks AFB) were part of the band of saber bearers along with several other hooligans from their UPT class. Rusty EVERS (’97, KC-135, Grand Forks AFB) was the videographer. AJ MIMS (logistic support, Hurlburt Field) and Ed MARSH (A-lOs, Korea) came just to keep the party at The Warehouse Gallery &Brewery going until dawn. Melea and Curt BURNEY (BASH program, Kirkland AFB) were going to attend, but blew agasket somewhere outside of Las Vegas, NM. Tim BUNNEL a.k.a. “Mouse” was a missing groomsman; he couldn’t make the transpaci c ight from Yakota AB. After the wedding, Jason and Bobbie ew from Colorado directly to their hon¬ eymoon destination in Tahiti. They wanted to go someplace where their only ex¬ pectations were to lie on the beach and drink mai-tais and, also, somewhere that

they would never travel to in the tanker. When they returned, Bobbie left without

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BRANNAN, and Matt and Heather GIESE. It’s been abig summer for weddings for the Grim Reapers! The last letter came from Todd COOK. He just PCSed to Charleston from Kan¬ sas. He’sinAircraftMaintenanceon the C-17 andlovingit. He spent last June at Ramstein in support of operation ALLIED FORCE. Since arriving in South Caro¬ lina, he has been asortie generation ight commander and has just moved out of the ight-level job to the squadron-level supervision on the grave shift (2300-0800). But, he says not to worry, he hasn’t started painting his ngernails black just yet. Other Bricks who are running around Charleston are: Meg MARTIN (C-141s). Joe SZUCS, Dave OWENS, and TVey HODGES (C-17s) have been ying/breaking Todd’s jets. Finally, Paul RIBEIRO arrived last fall as the new fuels ight commander for Supply. Keep the e-mail, letters, and pictures coming! It’s great for the article and for me. Ihave to live vicariously through all of you because I’m stuck down here at Del Taco. I’ve got two great pics from Blair KAISER for the next article, but you’ll have to patiently wait for them. Take care, Harley Melvin E. Maxwell, Jr. PSC #80, Box 17707 APO AP 96367-7707 Work e-mail: melvin.maxwell@kadena.af.mil

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Hope everyone had agood summer. As 1write this there are Academy cadets from the Class of 2002 running around Kadena for Operation Air Force. Kind of blows my mind to think we are now three years removed from the Academy. That three-year pay raise was anice reminder though. Let me tell you what’s going on with some of out classmates.

Spirit MELLER wrote from Hurlburt Field, FL where he’s working on his fth job since arriving to the base in October of '97. That either means he’s doing areally bad or areally good job. Spirit did 17 months of

ight line maintenance on the

AC-130U, ve months as the Equipment Maintenance Squadron Maintenance supervisor, ve months as the AMMO ight commander, and six weeks in Sortie Generation for the MH-53J before getting scooped up as the Logistics Group ex¬ ecutive of cer for the largest LG in the Air Force. The 16th LG also has the distinc¬ tion of winning the 1999 Daedalian for best weapon system maintenance in the AF. Spirit is living on the beach, enjoying the Air Force life. It got even better for him on April 22"'* when he got married to his best friend, the former Jenifer Laurel Bennett of Columbus, GA. Take alook at the picture below to see some of the grads in attendance. In addition to the folks pictured, fellow PTWOBs Eric KNAUFF and Kevin TE MPLIN supported Spirit and Jenifer at their wedding.

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Hi Everyone!

Ihope you all had agreat time spending those two pay raises and that you all had agreat summer. This article is being written the day it is due, as is my norm, but this time is particularly hectic, as Iam smack in the middle of aPCS. So, there might not be much ow to this article. Ido have alot of information though, so hopefully that will make up for the lack of organization. If you wrote me an update prior to the "love bug’’ virus, it was lost in Barksdale’s efforts to counter the negative effects of the virus. Iapologize, and Ihave started sending the e-mails Iget at work to my home account so this won’t happen again. So, if you sent something in and it isn’t here, please re-send it and Ipromise it will go in the next issue.

OK, on to what ‘98ers are doing. Igot married this past May, and Tara VICE and Joy BOSTON were both in the bridal party. We had agood time and less than a week later Tara was in the desert. So, my name is now Karin MCWHORTER, and as of July 11 am aprotocol of cer at Langley, and my husband is off to Columbus for pilot training after spending two years as aB-52 navigator. So much for joint From left are Dennis Uyechi, Eli Bremer COO), Carrie Johnson, Dave Johnson, Tamsey Bremer, Max Bremer, Jenifer Meller, Spirit Meller, and Justin Bremer.

spouse! But enough about me... Alex ACKERMAN wrote with the news that he just got an assignment to

Matt FETZER dropped me aline and gave us an update on how he is doing. Matt got FAIPed to aT-1 at Laughlin where he joined Ryan McCREIGHT, Mike

Mildenhall to be the comm ight commander for the 488th Intelligence Squad¬ ron. Sounds like agreat job and he is really looking forward to it. Ialso heard from Jaime ANDERSON (MELTON) who also sent agreat picture of the newest addition to their family, Abigail Lynn Anderson. She was born on Sept

JULATON, Dan BEGIN (’96), Mike LENHART (’96) Susan WHALEN (’98), Lauren

28, 1999. Both Jamie and her husband, Keith, are still at Columbus, but Keith is

ECKERT (’98), Jesse BAKER (’98), and Stu RUBIO (’98) at the 86 FTS. He also passed on the Garret POVAR is now at Davis Monthan ying A-10s, Dan BURTZ is at Malmstrom AFB, MT, and Mike JAMOOM is at pilot training in Columbus. Matt is enjoying the married life along with his wife, Joanna, who keeps him in line. Matt BERG gave me ashout from Dyess AFB, TX. Matt’s son Michael Ryan is now two and half years old and lives with his mother in Colorado (It’s amazing

applying to the JAG program and has recently been accepted to the University of Alabama Law School. Not sure if he will be going to school this coming fall or trying for the program again next year. Jaime is still working in Personnel as chief of Relocations and Employment. Thanks for the update and best of Luck!

how time

ies). Matt left the con nes of Davis Monthan and now works mainte¬

nance on the B-1. Matt is the interim squadron maintenance of cer for the 28“' Bomb Squadron, the largest bomber squadron in the AF with 25 jets and 350 maintainers. Matt’s holding the job down until October when the SMO arrives. When he’s not working, Matt hangs out with Anthony MINCER (B-1 FTU), Thad MIDDLETON (C-130), Noah OVIEDO (C-130), Katie SMITH (‘98, MX), Joe FERTOLIA (‘98, B-1 FTU), and Quentin COX ('98, section commander).

John NEWBILL dropped me aline from RAF Lakenheath where he and his fam¬ ily moved in February. Previously, John was at Goodfellow AFB, TX where he was the Security Forces operations of cer and earned the 1999 Wing CGO of the Year. John recently ran into Rich GOODMAN who arrived at Lakenheath after complet¬ ing F-15 training at Seymour Johnson. Both Matt BERG and John talked about desires to get to Korea. Matt is looking to get to Korea next summer where Iactu¬ ally hope to join him. John wants to get there for Air Base Defense and knock out his remote but says his wife has other ideas. My old roommate Brad HOLTMEIER gave me an update from the West Coast. Brad passed on that Kyle MARTIN will be getting married Aug 12 with Brad per¬ forming “Best Man” duties. Tm guessing this was probably alast result for Kyle as I’m sure there were several choices ahead of Brad that may have fallen through. Brad also attended Vic PEREIRA’S wedding to Kristen STOVALL which took place in Montana. Brad said Vic and Kristen ew to their reception in ahelicopter. Impressive. Brad shared aroom with Matt HQRIN and his wife, Jessica (LOGUE), during the weekend. Brad also passed on word that Devin BLOSS is headed for a three-year tour in Alaska in July. Peter SANDNESS is also moving this summer from Boston to Offutt AFB, NE at the end of August. Louella LOVELY passed on word of her and Amanda JENNINGS’ triumph over the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. The ladies nished the 26-mile race and managed to show some Air Force spirit along the way. Apparently, Amanda in¬ sisted in yelling “GO AIR FORCE” through the water station at mile 9. The Ma¬ rines manning the station took exception and proceeded to drench our heroines. (Tm pretty sure Amanda has gotten married and her last name is nowZumbrunnen but Iwas unable to con rm prior to sending in the article.) As Iwrote in an article or two ago, Pat SUERMANN left Charleston for Andersen AB, GUAM. Pat was not even on the island aweek when his unit sent him TDY to

Kadena for aclass. Pat and Igot to catch up on some old times and talk alittle about the future. Pat’s is alittle more in focus than mine. Apparently, on some¬ what of awhim, Pat called up the CE department at the Academy and asked them about the possibility of getting sponsored to go to school. Well, to make along story short, after Guam, Pat is heading to College Station, TX to get his master’s. After Texas A&M, Pat will be headed to USAFA to teach in the CE department. Wow, USAFA faculty. Ialso ran into Jon WHEELER ('96), Marc GARCEAU, and Manuel URIBE who y F-16s out of Osan. Unfortunately, Iran into them at the O’Club on aFriday night and do not have the clearest memory of any conversa¬ tion we may have had. And last but de nitely not least. Lane THOMPSON’S folks dropped me aline to let everyone know that Lane and his wife, Kristen (Hobbs), of Golden, CO are at Dover AFB, DE. Lane is aC-5 copilot. That’s about all Ihave for this issue. Before Ipop smoke, let me put aplug in for my good friend Randy LUDWIG (’96). Randy

Tom PAYNTER’s wife, Beth, also sent an e-mail and brought up agreat question.

She asked about sending in pictures. If you would like to send in apicture, and it would be great if you did, any size is ne. Also, please annotate if you would like the photo back. Although we had some initial trouble with this, the AOG has been great about getting the pictures back to me. Iwill then send them back to you— provided you sent an address along with the photo. Make sure agrad is in the photo or the AOG will not use it. So, don’t be shy! The next update came from Nate HARTLEY. He was medically retired from the Army in November and has been working ever since at acompany called the Lucas Group, which is a“headhunting’’ company that started off working with miiitary of cers about 30 years ago. So, if the Air Force isn’t going to keep you for 20 years, Nate wouid be agreat person to look up before you separate. He is currendy living

in Newport Beach. He still has to wake up every morning to do rehab at 4:30 and get his tumors looked at every month. But other than that, he said he is doing well. Thanks for the update, Nate.

Irene WEISENBURGER also sent aquick update. She said her boring studentlife at Georgetown is anything but newsworthy, but she recentiy moved from D.C. to Alexandria, VA. So far, her AF experience has been very minimai —her next active duty tour is in April 2001 to Travis AFB doing Famiiy Medicine. Her next two years of med schooi are ail hospital work, so it should be much more exciting than classroom time. As far as old friends, she let me know that Ben

BAUMGARTNER is married and expecting —congratulations! The same bunch is still there at Georgetown, one year older and doing well.

Irecently ran into Ryan GORECKI, who is in B-52 training and will be stationed at Barksdale with the oe* Bomb Squadron, in the Barksdale personnel of ce, and

he was kind enough to send me the following information on the UPT class of 0005 from Columbus: Michael CONNERS, C-130 to Pope. Nate CRIMMINS, C-17 to Charleston, married with one child. Richard HEMMINGS, KC-135 to Mildenhall. Dave EIDSMOE, UH-1 to Yokota. Sean ADCOCK, KC-135 to MacDill. Quintin ANDERSON, F-16 location is TBD. Dax HAYES, A-10 location is TBD. He got en¬

gaged to Karian NEW (’99). Ronald SCHOCHENMAIER, KC-135 to McConnell. Adam COOPER is in T-44s in Corpus. Matt WIEDER is also in B-52 training at Barksdale.

Here are some more assignments he knew of: Brandon EVANS, C-21 to Langley; Shane NOYES and Eric BERG, C-5 to Dover. Kevin ROY and Tony BARRY, T-38 FAIPSs, Columbus; and James MILLER, T-38 FAIP to Vance. Greg HIETPAS, Jim VANCE, Stu ALLEY, Ryan NUDI and Ryan MAHONEY, T-37 FAIPs, Columbus; and Justin MUSTIN, T-37 FAIP to Vance. Rounding out the FAIPs: Sean HOSEY, T-1 FAIR Columbus. Jason FORTE and Brian QUINN are ying the C-21. Greg HAFNER, C-9 to Scott; Jenni STELDT, C-17 to Charleston; and RE BENDER, HC-130 to Hurlbert. Niles RUTHYEN, Jeremy JONES, Adam BURCH, Adam “Tosh” SMITH, Scott STADELMAN and Dave SHACHTER are all ying F-15Cs. Brian WIELAND also sent me abunch of info about people on the rated side of the house. He is currently in IFF at Columbus and will start A-1 Os this September. Drew DOUGHERTY is in his class and will start A- 10s in October. Brad SPEATS is

almost nished with IFF and is going on to F-16s. Brian, along vrith Stephen COWART (‘94), and Mike CLABORN (‘95) have been “hitting it hard, doing abit of

gambling and partying around Mississippi and Tennessee.” Eric GILBERT n¬ ished IFF and is going on to F-15Cs. He is getting married to Kasia SINGER (99). Mike JACOBSON is almost nished with IFF and will also go on to F-15Cs. John

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here. Joe COX is aT-1 IP. Carl DIECKMAN and Joe ZINGARO are T-38 IPs at

Laughlin. Jennifer YOUNG is aTWeet IP at Laughlin. Matt LEDDY is jing C-9s out of St. Louis. JeffMATRE is ying C-21S at Peterson. Matt BROWN and Aaron JACOBS are in B-1 RTU at Dyess. Ben ZETTEL is in F-16 RTU. Adam KIRKMAN is in T-38s along with Kevin CURRY at Laughlin. Jeff MOHR is in ‘38s at Laughlin also. Sean FINNAN will be coming to Columbus shortly to start IFF. He is going to F-lSCs. Aaron MC CARTHY is starting UPT up at Vance. Ai KINKLE is doing Comm in Panama City. Jaime CAPLINGER is in F-16 RTU. Dave LEWIS is at Fort Rutger in helicopter training. John BEURER is at Kirtland train¬ ing in Spec Ops helicopters. Todd SCHWARTZLOW is at Tulane in med school, along with Beth PEEBLES. Josh EATON got accepted to med school, but Brian didn’t know where he plans to go. Brian also said he spent agreat weekend in San Antonio with Sarah MCCOY. She is aimost out of Intel school and is going to Elmendorf. Thanks for all the great info, Brian.

The next update is also from the ying world. Joe PARAM wrote from McConnell AFB, KS where he is ying the KC-135. Other ‘98ers here ying the ‘135 are Trey NIEMEYER, Trey HALL, and Jeff HINDMARSH, Shelby ORTIZ, John LUCAS and Ron LECZA,

Shay WARAKOMSKI sent me an update from the Pentagon. He is currently the chief of Systems Integration for War Plans on the Air Staff at the Pentagon. Quite atitle, and he says the job is going welt. He also mentioned that Tobin RUFF and Cenia VARGAS are also up that way.

Also got anote from Paul EMSLIE, who graduated from AFIT in residence this past March along with Jeremy STRINGER. He is now stationed at Headquarters AFPC doing analysis on promotion, retention, recruiting and the like. Justin HILL works just upstairs from Paul and Julia EAST. Ithink the farthest update came from Megan DOUGHERTY (SCOTT), who sent

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Hello Shiners! The most exciting news to get out is that we have aclass web page, thanks to Matt JONES. The URL Is www.usafa99.com. Take abreak from forwarding junk mail and check it out. Eventually this should make Checkpoints obsolete, which is nice for me, (Editor’s note: Don’t count on it James!) You can

log In, enter your contact information, and even write ashort blurb on what is happening in your life. The page also includes pictures and links. Matt wrote this page as part of his MBA program at the University of Pittsburgh. He will be done this fall and then off to Columbus AFB for UPT. Thanks Matt!

I’ve been accused in recent days of short-changing the non-rated in my articles, so let me begin this one by paying homage to some of those who don’t y jets. First, Theresa SIEGEL wrote to say that the rst ‘99ers have graduated from Intel school at Goodfellow AFB, TX—Conus Remotus. Ten of the 18 members of class 990901 are ‘99ers: Dickson DONAHUE and Bill ROSCHEWSKI are going to Elmendorf. Ed SUGAR and Joe WHITEHEAD are going to Osan. Vinny PROFFIT

is off to Ellsworth. Lisa DOBBELS (MEYERS) is joining her husband at Charleston. JeffVAIL is headed to Langley. Christel GILBERT is going to be on the staff of Fighter Weapons School at Nellis. Aaron LAMB will be at Kelly, and Theresa will be going to Dyess.

hers in from Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. She and husband, Mike, are

doing well and they are both at Price Sultan AB, Saudi until the middle of July. Mike is working with the back-end crew for the RJ-135 and Iam ying C-2 Is. They were lucky enough to work it so they were depioyed there together. They are both stationed in San Antonio and have been lucky with the joint spouse system so far, ararity as far as Ican tell.

Rachel TUKEY is in Turkey right now. Sue WHALEN is instructingT-ls at Laughlin and absolutely loving it. Also, there are more ‘98ers at PSAB: Tara VICE Is deputy commander of Services, Missy YODERIAN is in charge of about 170 people for Security Forces. Megan also ran into Shelby ORTIZ who Is down there ying KC135s and just got engaged to aGuard A-10 guy named Matt Easier—the wedding

From left are Dickson Donahue, Kyle Hawley (OTS), Ed Sligar, Vinny Proif tt,

nished up their 90 days

Shawn Pulscher (ROTC),fohn O’Kane (ROTC), Lisa Dobbels, JeremyAhlstrom (ROTC),

at Eskon Village. Brian is heading back to Eglin where he is doing Intel for Special Ops. Nikki VIGIL is up at Minot doing missiles. She Is engaged to agreat guy

Jeff Vail, Theresa Siegel, Dustin Huebner (ROTC), Bill Rochewski, Joe Whitehead, Christel Gilbert, Aaron Lamb, Kim Rodgers (OTS), and Jim Harmon (Reservist).

is next March. Brain LEIBENOW and Dan HARLOW just

named Joe (not Academy) and they will be getting married next January. Ryan SAVAGEAU, Jay HUGHES, and Trena EMERSON are ali down at Luke for F-16 RTU, Ialso got an e-mail from Rob EVERT about class 00-07 at Columbus. They gradu¬ ated April 7, 2000 and got the following assignments: Sara VICTOREEN, C-5 to Travis AFB, CA; Guy JOHNSON, KC-10 to McGuire AFB, NJ; Jen MURPHY, C-141 to

McChord AFB, WA; Candy STREFF, C-5 to Dover AFB, DE; John LESHO, A-10 to Davis-Monthan; Jon BURDICK, KC-135 to Fairchild AFB, WA; Joe CLANCY, C-130 to Pope AFB, NC; Scott SMITH, T-37 FAIP at Columbus AFB, MS; Chuck PARKS, C130 to Little Rock AFB, AR; Joe WENKUS, C-130 to Ramstein AB, Germany; and Billy NELSON, AC-130 to Hurlburt Field, EL.

Rob is headed to aKC-135 at Grand Forks AFB, ND. He says that because he’s from Minnesota he’s “ready to get back to God’s country" as he can’t nd ahockey rink anywhere in the southeast! He can’t wait to get asnowmobile and an Ice¬ shing house and asked me to pass on the invite to you all to come to northern Minnesota and go ice

shing anytime.

Rob also mentioned that he attended Ryan PAOLUCCI wedding to Amy Townsend in Alexandria, MN, over Memorial Day weekend. He saw Jeff PARR,

who is PCSing to Wright-Pat to attend AFIT and is married and Erwin Waibel, who is going to Intel now. He also saw Derek MENTZER (F-15s somewhere). Paolucci

and new wife are going to be living in Boston on base, and he says the cost of living out there is horrible. Last but not least, Rob also passed through Dover, DE, and stayed with Mark“Bush’’ THURBUSH, who is partying like arock star and is in supply at Dover AFB. He will be In attendance on July 15 when Chuck Parks’ wedding takes place in Topeka, KS, to Laura Riddle. They met when he was a rstie. Also going to be there are ‘98ers

Now some news from the space/missiles folks. Chuck HOLLAND married Sharon HILLMAN (USAFA ‘98) on 26 June 99. Since then he’s been out at

Vandenberg for Space/Missile training and now back out to Colorado Springs. He’s part of aspace surveillance crew and commander at 1CACS at Cheyenne Mountain. Fellow space cadet Michelle BAUGUS, now Michelle NUNEZ, had this to say in arecent e-mail: “A rather large handful of us who got assignments in space and missiles are coming back to the Springs to be stationed at Schriever AFB including myself. Tea GALINEC, Tony MURO, Seth BARUN, and AG WERSCHKY. On aside note, Tony managed to get himself hired to be on camera in some Fox Family movie for $100 —look for that on prime time coming soon. Others went off to places outside Colorado. Rob JERTBERG, who’s now adad (be¬ lieve it or not) is in sunny Florida, helping launch the space shuttle at Cape Canaveral. Chip CSOBOTH decided it was too warm here in the lower 48 states and headed north...all the way to Alaska. No kidding, he went to Clear to live with the polar bears and penguins.

‘VVell, not all of us ended up in space, and some of us got lucky enough to go to missiles, including Jake LACOCK (who will be adad by the time this article is printed) who went to Malmstrom in Montana, and Joe JIMMERSON, who not only is also adad to abeautiful little girl, but is headed to Cheyenne WY to settle down at FE Warren AFB for abit. So, while California has been nice, Vandenberg is the

peninsula of the state time forgot. Unlike the rest of the state, we have had lots of rain and fog and cold mornings —no swimming at the beaches here (they are all closed anyway, so some bird can be protected from man, go gure). Oh well, not too much longer here. ‘In other news, Dria SMITH nally got married at Thanksgiving; She is now Dria

Karl FALK (married), Ryan QUAALE (married), Steve “The Kentucky Dream" FERNANDEZ (married and just had ason, Dominick Stephen Fernandez), all stand¬

PRESTON and working hard to

ing in the wedding along with Rob. Wow, the married thing sounds like atrend.

up Intel school with her—heard he got himself abroken foot during intramurals,

Wonder when Rob will join in... One last tidbit: Guy JOHNSON is getting married to Dina Hayek in Cheyenne, WY, on Aug 28. Look for many grads to attend.

The last update comes from Scott ROBIN regarding adecoration our class is entitled to. The 34* Training Wing, and thus the Class of ‘98, received another Outstanding Unit Award for the period from 1Jan 1998 to 31 Oct 1999. He also mentioned if you have any problems proving the awards and decs you really "earned", the ribbons that we currently wear can be found at

nish up at Intel school. Afterwards she is headed

to Hoiloman to be with her husband, also a‘98er. Mickey BATTLE is also nishing poor guy. Celeste RODRIGUEZ nally setded down too in Charleston, SC where she is doing Comm., which is keeping her busy too," Chris CAREDEO graduated from Army Intel School and is now in Korea assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division’s Intel Battalion as alow level voice interceptor platoon leader (less complicated than it sounds). Apparendy he goes up to the DMZ aiot to set up listening posts to intercept North Korean messages and stuff. Chris likes it

www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/awards/awards.htm. You can nd the award by search¬

because he gets to live in the eld alot, carry aheavy pack, and wield an M-16. Finally for some comm people. Ryan FIARRIS wrote to say that he and Matt

ing for “34 TRNG". Weft, that is all the news for this issue. There was more, but it is lost somewhere

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is cyberspace. Please keep the info coming and note my e-mail and address changes. Because Ihave no address at the time this article is being written, piease mail any pictures to the address above, my parents, and they will get it to me. Karin Thanks again for all the responses, and keep it coming

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LESHO is in my IFF class also and will be in my A-10 class as well. Beth CRIMMEL is here just starting UPT after she graduated from Harvard. She said Rob MAKROS is starting F-15E RTU this month. Scott ROWE and James WEST are Tweet IP’s

ight commanders at Tinker AFB in the 3rd Combat Communica¬

tions Group. Ryan is currendy the base systems ight commander. He added these notes on other ‘99ers the keeps in contact with: Dave BERGIN is down at Sheppard and comes up to Tinker to play some golf occasionally. Evan JONES is getting mar¬ ried to a2000er, and is down in San Antonio for physical therapy school. Back to the rated side of the house. Dan HENDRIX wrote me to say that he is

doing UPT at Whiting. He and his wife, Cheralyn, claim to have the rst legiti¬ mate ‘99er baby. Eric Peter was born at 12:55 AM on the 21st (Good Friday). He’s

Alast word about myself—I nished my graduate degree at San Diego State on May 25'", and have been enjoying afew nal weeks of the balmy San Diego cli¬

Congratulations Dan and Cheralyn.

for my severely traumatized spine. Iguess all the sur ng Idid over the last nine months was good for me. For those of you who were keeping me in your thoughts and prayers, thanks. It is truly amazing to think that ayear ago my commission

Craig SWIERZBIN sent me the rundown on the rst group of ‘99ers from Co¬ lumbus to track select. Iwas supposed to include this in the last issue but ran out

of room. Here it is: Craig SWIERZBIN, T-1; John SMITH, T-44; Jeff SCHLUETER, T44; Matt CROWELL, T-38; Aaron REDFERN, T-38; Mike STODDARD, T-1; Marc CHOISNARD, T-1; Mike HARTSON, T-1; and Aaron MINER, T-1. Ireceived an e-mail from JJ MCONNELL's mom (isn’t that sweet). JJ is at UPT at

Laughlin. He nished with T-37s (class 13, E ight) and is now ying T-38s (Red Bulls). His proud mom said that he’s “one happy camper right now; his dream of ying military jets is becoming areality!” Acouple of weeks ago he crossed paths with Luke SAVOIE, now at Laughlin as well. Sean BAERMAN was married at the USAFA chapel in May. Sean, since graduat¬ ing in December, has completed IFT and was on casual status in the USAFA Biol¬

ogy Department. He and his bride, Mandy, honeymooned in Mexico, and now they are off to Enid, OK so Sean can begin UPT at Vance. At the wedding were Daniel DIEHL, Ray JOHNSON, Mick BOEING, and myself. If you happen to run into Sean, ask him about the baby pictures. Just arumor Iheard..

From left are Mike Nielson (ROTC), Mick Boeing, Matt Busch COO), Sean Baerman, Daniel Diehl, Henry Schantz (W), James Busch, Dean Berck COO), Matt Kucia (VO), and Mike Laidlaw (‘01).

mate before moving on to Sheppard AFB for ENJJPT. Idid manage amedical waiver

was in jeopardy and my chances at pilot training were nil. Miracles do happen. That’s it for this issue. Until next ti me.. .James. Jason "JW” Simmons

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Greetings, recent graduates! By the time this is released we will have been second lieutenants for afew months and the excitement from our graduation will have nally settled. Many of you will be at some sort of training and others awaiting training or out there already on the job. We all have exciting careers ahead of us and Checkpoints will hopefully be agreat way to keep up on what everyone is doing. On that note, Ihave created aweb site for us to stay in communication with each other. Adoringly enough the web site is www.USAFA00.com and could prove to be useful to you. It will list information that you are willing to give out and be a great way to get in touch with your Academy classmates. So, log on and keep me updated on what you are doing and give us your updated e-mail addresses. With the traveling many of us will be doing, it will be nice to have this information so if say you stop into, say Pensacola, you could hang out with all of us down here and possibly hit some of the good night scenes. For the next release of Checkpoints, Iwould like to include some of the exciting things you did over your 60 days of leave. So, send me your stories and if you have pictures send them to me and we’ll try to get some good photos in the next “Class News,” (I’ll have my new mailing address listed on the class web site.) The AOG needs the original photo, but we’ll make sure it gets back to you for your scrapbook.

Vince DANNA married Laura Ebensberger on July 3,1999 in Leesburg, VA. Scott MENG and Brian PHILLIPS (Vince’s former roommates) were ushers at the wed¬

ding, The best news is Laura is pregnant! The baby is due Dec 2000. According to Vince’s mom, this was a“surprise” and happened after Vince returned from an

insightful 30-day TDY in Alabama. That’s what those TDYs will do to you guys. Vince and Laura are now in Del Rio where Vince is completing pilot training.

Casey Sere e-mailed me awhile back. Some of you may remember that he was a Class of ‘99 cadet until he got in acar accident and spent four months in the hospital. He received abrain injury and somehow through school at the University of Arizona and therapy he was able to get back into the academy (maybe that brain injury was more severe than the doctors thought). He will graduate this May but unfortunately for him he is of cially with the Class of 2000 now. He says he’ll “always be a'99er at heart” Pending commission he will be assigned to the scienti c analyst job at Kelly AFB. He also recently got engaged and will be married at the chapel on Sept 30. In other random news, Zach ARNT, of all people, e-mailed to say that he is now atour guide for some West Coast tour company. So, if you happen to see abusload of tourists running in place, doing push-ups, and reciting Scho eld’s quote, you’ll know who it is. Good luck Zach. Iam sure you’ll have no trouble making it inter¬ esting for those folks.

(AFA Fund Donors: Continued from page 33.) Mr and Mrs Fred W. Cunningham Mr and Mrs Stefan Czesak, Jr Gen and Mrs JE. Dalton Mr and Mrs John C. DeLuca, Jr Mr and Mrs Ronald J. Denham

Mr and Mrs Thomas L. Dressel Mr and Mrs William E. Erikson

Mr and Mrs CH. Ferguson Mr and Mrs Louis EFikar

MSgt and Mrs Walter A. Franceschini Lt Col and Mrs ES. Fraser, Jr Mr and Mrs Charles C. Gier

Mr and Mrs Patrick B. Stanley

Mrs Helen 1. Jacox Mr and Mrs Louis C. James

Mr and Mrs Raymond Powell Ms Patricia Quinn MGen (Ret) and Mrs Edmund A. Rafalko Dr and Mrs Russell B. Rayman

Mr and Mrs Larry D. Stoner Mrs Evajane L. Storm

Mr and Mrs Paul G. Lotakis

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Mr Richard J. Graham

Mr and Mrs Earl C. Melick

Mr and Mrs Thomas L. Gilbert

Mr and Mrs Richard Green

Dr and Mrs Walter Meyer, MD Mr and Mrs Andrew J. Miller Lt Col and Mrs James L. Moore Mr and Mrs Tom T. Morrissey

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each other. Take care, friends.

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